Founder Claims 100 Million Yuan from Blizzard

Beijing Founder Electronics, a subsidiary of the Founder Group, has brought lawsuit against the US-based Blizzard Entertainment and the Shanghai The9 Limited over alleged copyright infringement before the Beijing High People's Court. Founder claimed 100 million Yuan, one of the largest amount ever sought by a Chinese company against a foreign company in an IPR dispute in recent years.

According to a Founder executive, Blizzard's online game, World of Warcraft has been illegally copying and using five fonts without Founder's consent, which is an outright infringement of Founder's copyright. According to its preliminary estimate, Founder suffered a loss of over one billion Yuan because of the infringement.