Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple settling the iPad trademark dispute in China, Samsung filing an appeal for the Galaxy Nexus, and IBM’s augmented reality app.

Apple pays $60M to settle dispute with Proview

Apple paid $60 million to Proview, settling the iPad name issue which started last year.

“The iPad dispute resolution is ended,” the Guangdong High People’s Court said in a statement.  “Apple Inc. has transferred $60m to the account of the Guangdong High Court as requested in the mediation letter.”

Apple sued Proview last year stating that the Chinese company infringed the iPad trademark, but the latter retaliated stating that Apple was the one who illegally used the iPad name.  Proview registered the iPad name back in 2000.  Apple bought the worldwide rights of the iPad trademark from Proview’s Taiwanese affiliate for $55,000 but Shenzhen Proview stated that their Taiwanese affiliated had no rights to sell them.

Originally, Proview was asking $1.5 billion in damages but it looks like they’re quite happy with the settlement.

“The case is settled, both sides are satisfied with the agreement,” Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer from Shenzhen Grandall Law Firm, which is handling Proview’s case said.

In other Apple news, the iPhone maker’s shutdown MobileMe and informed users via e-mail that they can still get their files for a limited time.  Users are encouraged to download their files from MobileMe even if they choose to upgrade to iCloud in order to protect their files, as cloud storage still proves to be a very vulnerable platform.

Those who upgrade to iCloud will be able to automatically sync their address book, e-mail, calendar, bookmarking and storage.  The rest of the MobileMe features, Gallery, iDisk, iWeb Publish, the ability to sync Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items, Keychains, Mail Account, Mail Rules/Signatures/Smart Mailboxes, and System Preferences, won’t be as lucky.  As for the “Find My Phone” app, even if a user chooses not to upgrade to iCloud or their device cannot be upgraded, the app will still work.

Samsung files appeal over Galaxy Nexus

On Friday, Judge Lucy Koh ruled in favor of Apple, granting them a preliminary injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus –  a joint product with Google.  This was the second Samsung device banned from being sold and imported in the US in just one week.  Earlier last week, Judge Koh granted a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Apple.

Over the weekend, Samsung already filed an appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit requesting for the injunction to stay or not be in effect during the duration of the appeal or until the Federal Circuit comes to make a decision on a possible stay.

In Samsung’s appeal, the company stated that “Apple cannot prove a loss of market share to Samsung,” and that “the Court’s order is inconsistent with the Federal Circuit’s directive that market share losses must be substantial.”

Samsung insists that Apple’s loss should be directly the result of the infringed patent and not just the presence of a device in the market that uses the infringing technology.  Google Nexus was found infringing patent 8,086,604, a “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system” a.k.a. Apple’s Siri.

IBM’s augmented reality mobile shopping app

IBM Research is developing a mobile shopping app that bridges the gap between online and physical shopping.  The app allows shoppers to pan their smartphone’s camera over items in stores to get details like what sizes and colors are available, or whether or not the product has ingredients you may be allergic to, a personalized option you can set up.

The development of this app is part of a portfolio aimed at trying to make retailers better understand their consumers so they can cater to individual needs and serve them better while they are in the store.  It’s part of a larger trend towards leveraging smartphones to interact with a variety of physical things, and retail is quite keen on personalization for targeted marketing purposes.