Apple's Vision Pro shows the difficulties of domestic listing. Huawei registered its trademark four years ago.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens lbzhh and Nico_Yazawa for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, June 11 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- at this week's WWDC23 developer conference, Apple officially unveiled its first MR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, an innovative device that integrates virtual reality and augmented reality and will be the first to be released in the United States early next year. However, Apple may face an awkward problem in the domestic market, that is, the name "Vision Pro" has been pre-registered by Huawei.

According to CTOnews.com 's query from the China Trademark website, Huawei successfully applied for the Vision Pro trademark as early as May 16, 2019, and the exclusive right to use the trademark lasted for 10 years, from November 28, 2021 to November 27, 2031. The trademark belongs to international classification 9 and covers a variety of goods and services, such as LCD televisions, head-mounted virtual reality devices, radio equipment and so on. This means that Apple's use of the name "Vision Pro" in China may be suspected of infringing Huawei's trademark rights, so Apple Vision Pro may use a different name when it goes public in China.

It is worth noting that Huawei registered the Vision Pro trademark not for Apple, but with its own product line. After all, Huawei should not have known in advance that Apple would launch the Vision Pro. Huawei has already launched two products related to "Vision", namely the Vision Glass, Huawei's first smart viewing glasses, and Huawei's Vision smart screen series, and Vision Pro may be a name reserved in advance for its smart screen series. Huawei has not yet announced whether it has any plans to launch its own MR headset.