The Guangdong court listed the top 10 monopoly cases involving the Internet.
The Guangdong High People’s Court on Tuesday released the top ten cases of unfair competition and monopoly in the Internet field, involving online games, webcasting, search engines, e-commerce and other emerging Internet industries, covering abuse of dominant market position, competitive ranking, data acquisition, commercial defamation and infringement of trade secrets. Tencent, Baidu and NetEase were listed in the top ten cases.
According to the published cases, Netease was sued by Huado for abuse of market dominance, the first case in the whole of China in which a live streaming platform sued a game manufacturer for monopoly, while Tencent was sued by MicroSource for abuse of market dominance. Both of these cases were dismissed by the court, but the court said it had regulated the order of competition in the online game and live game markets respectively, as well as clarified that monopoly of Internet services should define the relevant market with the goods or services specifically pointed to by the conduct involved in the lawsuit.
In addition, Baidu was involved in an unfair competition dispute, in which Piggy Bank set the “elite trademark” as a search keyword, which constituted trademark infringement, and Baidu failed to take necessary measures to delete the elite trademark in a timely manner after receiving a valid notice to delete it, which caused further expansion of the damage. (RMB, same below) out of 100,000 yuan.
It is noted that the number of unfair competition disputes and monopoly disputes handled by Guangdong courts has been rising year by year in recent years, with 897 cases of this type concluded in 2020, representing an annual increase of 10.9%, accounting for about 20% of the country.
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