Founder Electronics prosecuting United States Blizzard infringement
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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