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Apple's wildly popular iPads are becoming a little harder to find in mainland China, one of its fastest growing markets. This week, Amazon.com stopped selling the tablet computers online in China at Apple's request, according to sources close to the matter, who declined to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly on the issue. Amazon, which was selling the iPad through resellers, is not an authorized reseller, the sources said. The tablet computers are also no longer available on the website of Chinese retailer Gome or Jingdong's 360buy.com. And government officials have seized dozens of the devices off retail shelves on the mainland amid a contentious trademark battle Apple is facing over the iPad name, China's state-run media reports. Shenzhen Proview Technology, a unit of Hong Kong-based LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings, alleges it owns the iPad trademark in mainland China and has asked a Shanghai court for a temporary restraining order to...