News this week: Following a Shanghai court ruling in favour of United Business Media (UBM) in November and against the Publishers Association of China Game Publication Committee (CGPA) together with Beijing Howell International Trade Fair Co. (Howell) for violation of the “PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law,” further rulings have been made, this time against UBM, at the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing related to the original dispute.
UBM has been found guilty of conducting unfair business practices including dissemination of false propaganda and business defamation. The court’s decision essentially states that “UBM claimed to have hosted alone or together with IDG the event of China Game Developers Conference 2007, but the said claim is not wholly factual and, thus, constitutes dissemination of false propaganda.” The court also found that UBM had not registered the trademarks, ‘Game Developers Conference’ or ‘GDC’, in China.
The court has ordered UBM to publish an acknowledgement of this finding and to compensate Howell for damages of just RMB 1.
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