The Beijing firm, a subsidiary of Founder Group, claimed that the US company used five fonts in the popular online fantasy game World of Warcraft from Founder’s database without authorization.

The Beijing Municipal People’s Supreme Court has accepted the case, which involves the largest amount of compensation subject filed by Chinese company against U.S. company.

Founder estimated that it lost earnings of up to more than 100 million yuan.

Founder Electronic is one of the largest providers of Chinese font database products. The Founder Word Database is one of the important parts of Founder Electronic Publicity System thereof. Originally developed by Professor Wang in 1974, it has acquired lots of awards nationally or internationally. The Founder Word Database is one of the high technology products with self-dominated IP rights and national characteristics.

Blizzard Entertainment is a world-known company of game development and operation. World of Warcraft, one of its online games which is developed in 2003, takes over 70% of its profit obtained from the game operation.

The law, crowned as China’s “economic constitution”, is constituted with 8 chapters and 57 articles, including general provisions, monopoly agreements, abuse of dominant position in the market, centralization of proprietor, exclusion of abuse of administrative power, restriction on competition, investigation on monopoly action, legal responsibility and supplementary provisions and etc. It mainly prohibits the following three kinds of monopoly actions: (1) monopoly agreement ;(2) abuse of dominant position in the market and (3) control of centralization of proprietor.

The promulgation of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law basically defines three specific parts of monopoly actions, establishes law-enforcement systems and relief methods of anti-monopoly, and provides legal protection for the revolution of monopoly industry. It would benefit the establishment of a fair competition environment, popularization of the competition conception and culture and balance and coordination of the relationships of various interests.

According to a colloquium held in Beijing on August 23 to mark the 25th anniversary of the implementation of China Trademark Law, the revision has been included in this year’s legislation plan of the Office of Legislative Affairs under the State Council and it should be revved up and proposed as soon as the conditions are mature.

The period of registration of trademark is too long---currently, it takes several years for registering a trademark, and the procedure of asserting party’s right is also too complicated---generally, it includes five steps, meanwhile the development of international trademark law also puts forward new demands for China’s trademark law legislation, the Deputy-director of the Office of Legislative Affairs under the State Council Wang yongqing said.

According to Wang, the third revision of the Trademark Law will simplify the procedures to benefit parties, shorten period of trademark registration and assertion, enforce the protection of the exclusive right of registration trademarks, and will also acclimatize China to the development of international trademark legislation and satisfy the large quantities of requirements for Chinese trademarks going abroad.

The Office of Legislative Affairs will closely cooperate with related departments to conduct the research and draft of the revision smoothly and efficiently, and the revision draft will be reviewed in time once being reported to the State Council, and it will be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for reviewing as soon as possible, Wang said.

The Customs cracked 1,151 exporting infringement cases, involving 169.3 million Yuan, and cracked 30 importing infringement cases, involving 590,000 Yuan.

According to the statistics, the cases cracked involve 1783 cases of infringing trademarks, 25 cases of infringing patents and 1474 cases of infringing copyrights.

In recent years, the Customs’ capability of enforcement has been enhanced greatly. The Customs revealed that Fuzhou Customs had just seized 17,484 pairs of fake sports shoes suspected of infringing international famous sports trademarks, such as “NIKE”, “ADIDAS”, “JORDON” and etc. at Mawei, involving about 9 million Yuan.

The Oslamservania Ltd., registered under the US laws, is the Chinese industrial design patent holder of “Bright” portable light. The Ningbo Customs has cracked several cases relating to the infringement of this patent product, since the patent was recorded in State General Administration of Customs this April. Especially, in the recent overhaul, the Customs seized 84,000 portable lights suspected of infringing this industrial design patent. As a holder of famous international trademark and industrial design patent, we got a great impression about the highly performances of Chinese Customs’ enforcement, concerning the difficulty in infringing industrial design products, the company’s Chief Intellectual Property Counsel John said.

Chinese customs recently won the “Special Contribution Awards 2007 for Customs Organizations at the Global Anti-Counterfeiting”, due to its outstanding performance in protecting intellectual property rights.

This is part of a social activity named "Stars of Hope Welcome the Olympics" organized by Beijing Bar Association in order to let the children in the rural area experience the grand sports event in Beijing.

Five students and one teacher from the primary school were invited by Unitalen to join the activity. In order to let the children feel the civilization, modernization and technology of 2008 Beijing Olympics, Unitalen representatives took them to some Olympic Stadiums, popular scenic spots, as well as museums offering DIY opportunities such as the Natural Museum and Movie Museum. The visit helped them understand civilization, modernization and technology promoted in the Olympics.

Taking the advantage of this activity, many Unitalen staff volunteered to sponsor the students so that they can continue their education. Unitalen also called upon more employees to take part in the sponsorship, offering schooling opportunities to more children in the remote and poverty-stricken region.