Nine Cities v. Blizzard to "cancel the session" or due to jurisdictional objections

Every reporter Zhongchunhui from Shanghai with the "World of Warcraft" temporarily stop clothing, domestic agents The Nineth City (hereinafter referred to as Nine city) sued the game's global Developers Blizzard Entertainment company and Blizzard Software Development (Shanghai) Limited (hereinafter referred to as Blizzard), "property damage, commercial defamation, infringement of computer software copyright" and other cases,　　caused a lot of players and the industry's extensive attention.　　The nine-city company that was scheduled to sit in Shanghai's Pudong court yesterday afternoon abruptly canceled a dispute over the damage to the blizzard's entertainment property, which has been reported to have been contested by Blizzard. Players gathered to attend the trial temporarily canceled yesterday 1:45 P.M. is the nine city of the first lawsuit against Blizzard, in Shanghai, Pudong Court room open trial.　　But until 2:30 P.M., the door of the mediation room is still locked, the plaintiff nine city company, the defendant Blizzard Entertainment and the case of the relevant personnel did not appear, only more than 20 applications to attend the personnel gathered in the scene, including media reporters, but also "Warcraft" fans. Blizzard Entertainment in 2005 authorized nine City company to operate the "World of Warcraft" series of games, the cooperation between the two sides ended June 7 this year. The next World of Warcraft is operated by NetEase company. Claiming to play 4 years of Warcraft game veteran player Chen yesterday specially leave, starting from the morning Hou in the court, "attention to Warcraft case trial process, and to the Forum real-time report." "On the two-storey electronic scrolling screen of the Pudong court, it still shows the normal hearing of the case," he said. "Daily economic news" to the court related personnel, the court on the internet there is no case to cancel the trial instructions.　　The reporter found the main trial judge Sun Li's office, staff said he was out, the phone has been no answer. A court case was scheduled to be conducted in the mediation room by a person who told the Daily economic news that the case was scheduled to be conducted in the mediation room, stating that the judge believed there was a possibility of out-of-court conciliation between the two parties.　　If it is not considered at the scheduled time, one may be cancelled; Another source said that the hearing was temporarily cancelled because of the defendant's Blizzard Entertainment raised a jurisdictional objection. Jurisdiction objection refers to the claim that the court has no jurisdiction over the case filed with the defendant.　　As the defendant in the case Blizzard Entertainment is an American company, it is possible to do so. Our law stipulates that if the defendant is not satisfied with the jurisdictional objection, he may appeal to the upper court within 10th after the receipt of the decision, and the court shall decide the jurisdictional objection within one months. When the defendant is an offshore enterprise or legal person, the duration of the proceedings can be as long as 30th.　　The case was filed for May 7, 2009, so Blizzard Entertainment at the June 18 session before the hearing of the appeal, the time is reasonable. Analysts believe that blizzard is likely to use the same means to deal with the other two cases in nine cities. According to the Shanghai Court online information revealed that the nine cities in property damage compensation, commercial defamation and computer software copyright infringement for three times to sue Blizzard Entertainment, three cases wereJune 18, July 8, July 8 in Shanghai, Pudong court and the Shanghai First Intermediate Court of the public trial. Yesterday, the nine cities and blizzard were not affected by the case, and did not comment on the matter.