A Chinese court ordered Sohu.com to compensate the writer of romantic mobile phone messages for selling these love notes without paying him. Although the write was far from satisfied with the damages worthy of RMB 100,000 yuan (US$13,000) as against RMB 3 million yuan in his claim, he said he would not appeal to the verdict issued by the Second Shanghai Intermediate Court.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/09-14-2007/a7240009808ea008.html
A Chinese domain name dealer registered the name of former Windows Chief Jim Allchin, which annoyed Mr. Allchin. But this is not a story of cybersquatting, at least not primarily. Instead, this reveals the deceptive practices of some registars or agents. When the registrant agreed to transfer back the domian name to Mr. Allchin, he was barred from doing so several times by the registrar/agent. In the extremely competitive domain name business, a registration can very cheap but there may well be some hidden charges attached to every transfer, correction or update.
http://www.sinofile.net/clients/amcweb.nsf/clpA/03B7F643FDCD37A448257300000C7142
The case took five years but just ended in a landmark decision by the Supreme People’s Court in China awarding Yahama Motor $1.1 million, the highest amount of damages ever awarded in China in a trademark dispute involving a foreign company.
The Chinese company….registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render its name in Chinese. This Japanese shell company then signed a licensing agreement with Zhejiang Huatian, allowing it to market its scooters in China under that name. Zhejiang Huatian went a step further by printing Yamaha’s name in English letters on its scooters.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2007/06/china_court_kil.html
A Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies lost his final appeal on Friday in the territory’s highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence.
The court of final appeal held, “He plainly succeeded in distributing copies of the films in question,” the court said in its judgment. “The appeal must accordingly be dismissed.”
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/18/tech-bittorrent-hongkong.html#skip300x250
The users of MSN v.8.1 discover that they can actually access the information of their friends’ friends. By clicking the icon of a contact, a user may access the circle of the friends of that contact. MSN denied this and insisted the loophole can be fixed.
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