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August 14, 2007 China Securities News
Beijing University Founder
Group, Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. has sued to the Beijing Municipal Higher
People's Court, sued that the United States, Blizzard Entertainment Limited and
other defendants had violated its own intellectual property rights of Founder
character library copyright and the suit has been formally accepted.
It is learnt that the amount of claims of the case has now reached 100 million
yuan, which would be would be the China's first case handled by the court in
2007 on intellectual property rights in the IT industry and also would be one
of the largest amount infringement claim object case of Chinese companies
claiming on intellectual property subject to foreign companies since China's
accession to the WTO.
It is inquisited that the United States Blizzard has reproduced and used a
large number the Founder Northern Wei Dynasty regular script, Founder
paper-cut, Founder thin-black-1 and other totally five Founder small font
characters from the Founder Electronics independent researched and developed,
compiled and assembled Founder character library in its developed and
authorized a famous Shanghai online game company in China mainland of the sole
agency operating the computer network game "World of Warcraft" without the
permission of Founder Electronics. Founder Electronics said the income loss
will reach 10 billion yuan due to the infringing of Blizzard of the United
States.
Founder Electronics is currently China's largest provider of Chinese character
products. Founder font character library is an important component of the
Founder electronic publishing system which is charged and researched and
developed by Professor Wang Xuan in 1974. At present, 90% market share of
overseas Chinese newspapers (including Southeast Asia and North America) has
been occupied by Founder electronic publishing system which maintains an
absolute leading advantage in the media software.
Blizzard United States is the world-renowned game developer and operator,
"World of Warcraft" is its online game developed in 2003 whose income occupies
near 70% of its games profit.
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