After the "World of Warcraft" series game, Developers Blizzard Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Blizzard Entertainment,inc. In 2013, the new online games "furnace stone legend: Warcraft Hero Biography", to achieve success.
"Furnace Stone" released only two days, Shanghai Travel Easy Network Technology Co., Ltd. that is the introduction of online games "Wolong Legends: The Three Kingdoms name biography." Blizzard and other found that "Wolong" completely copied the "Furnace stone" game elements, so a paper petition will be the company sued the court, to stop unfair competition, eliminate the impact and compensation for losses.
Shanghai, a Chinese court 10th disclosed that the game of intellectual property disputes, the first trial has results, the Shanghai Municipal People's Court sentenced to stop the spread of "Wolong" game, public statement to eliminate the impact, and compensation for the loss of more than 330,000 yuan.
March 2013, Blizzard Research and development of an electronic card game "furnace Stone legend: Warcraft Hero Biography" in the United States official debut. October 23, 2013, "Furnace Stone" was introduced into the Chinese market, and began to open the test to the Chinese public. October 25, the company followed the launch of the online games "Wolong", a number of media have reported that the "Wolong" almost perfect for the replacement of the skin copy of the "Furnace Stone." It is reported that "Wolong" from the project to exposure, only 20 working days.
Companies such as Blizzard have asked the company to stop testing for the public, publishing, publishing or disseminating in any form the "Wolong" game of unfair competition, the company on its website to make a public apology and issued a statement to eliminate the adverse market impact of its unfair competition on the blizzard Company, and compensation for economic losses and reasonable expenditure amounted to 5 million yuan.
A Chinese court in Shanghai believes that the "Wolong" project only takes 20 days to complete, far less than the usual game companies to develop a similar original game of the normal time consuming. Two games involved card, interface is very high, visual effects are not very different, the difference is only the role of the image from the World of Warcraft characters replaced by the three people, two games in the card composition and use of rules, basic rules of combat, basically consistent. So these facts are enough to support Blizzard's accusations that the company has copied its game as a whole.
Naoyi Company's unfair competition behavior has caused to the blizzard company, the net Easy company to have a certain degree of bad influence, therefore, the Court decree the Tour Easy Company by the discretion to publish the statement on its homepage 10th in succession the way to eliminate the influence.
Shanghai, a Chinese court also decided to immediately stop the spread of plagiarism of the plaintiff game "Wolong" game, the website issued a public statement to eliminate the impact, and compensation for economic losses and reasonable expenses amounted to more than 330,000 yuan.