Just days after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the highly anticipated iPad, a Chinese company says the Cupertino, Calif.-based company copied its P88 tablet. Apple’s iPad is a replica of Shenzhen Great Loong Brother’s tablet with similar functions, Wu Xiaolong, the company’s president, told El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper. The iPad is a mix between a laptop and a smartphone with functions similar to Apple’s iPhone, but on a larger scale. Xiaolong is threatening legal action against Apple if it attempts to sell the iPad in China. Some Key Differences The P88’s developer, which launched the tablet six months ago at the International Electronics Fair in Berlin, may be waiting for the iPad’s debut in China because it may not have the right to assert a patent dispute in the U.S., according to Ilan Barzilay, an intellectual-property attorney and partner with Boston-based Seyfarth Shaw LLP. The P88 developer, however, may have the right to take legal action in China if it has the rights in that country. “Apple is a pretty big company and if you are ready to start suit with them, you will have to be willing to go the distance,” Barzilay said. The Chinese company may have a difficult case to prove, as many observers said the tablets may look similar but have different features and functions. So proving theft of intellectual property will be a challenge. The iPad, which is a half-inch thick and 1.5 pounds, has a 9.7-inch LCD screen and will come in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions. The Chinese company’s P88 has a 10.2-inch screen without multi-touch functionality, uses a 250GB hard drive, and has an Ethernet port. “Yes, Apple is selling a tablet computer, and yes, the P88 is similar, but the design is different, the interface is different, and it has different buttons,”…

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