Baidu Wins Lawsuit against Qihoo 360

View: 1972     Date: 2013-04-29 03:13

Source: http://www.cipnews.com.cn/

Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine sued Chinese online security software developer Qihoo 360 for unfair competition, Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court issued a ruling on April 27, 2013, and asked Qihoo 360 to cease all unfair competition and related activities, feature an apology to Baidu on its homepage for a span of 15 days, and pay RMB 450,000 in damages. Causes of lawsuit are that: 1. Qihoo 360 forcibly distorts Baidu search result page to cause confusions; 2. Qihoo 360 deliberately counterfeits and confuses search results, intercepts Baidu traffic, infringes the plaintiff's trademark right, and competes unfairly.

Besides, the case sued by Tencent against Qihoo 360's QGuard for unfair competition was ruled for the first instance on April 25, 2013, and the High People’s Court in Guangdong province issued a ruling that Tencent won the case. The court decided that, Qihoo 360 should pay RMB 5 million for economic losses and reasonable legal costs and other expenses, feature an apology to Tencent for a span of 15 days on highlight places of websites and newspapers, including but not limited to, Qihoo 360's official website, Sina, Sohu, Netease, Legal Daily, and China Intellectual Property News, to eliminate ill effects. This has been the largest compensation in China's Internet industry, as well as the heaviest sentence for unfair competition in China.