In recent years, with the intensification of competition in the domestic online game market, an increasing number of domestic online game companies have turned their attention overseas, opting for the path of overseas expansion. The competition in the overseas online game market has shown a trend of intensifying heat. Due to the jurisdictional practice in domestic courts, which only conducts formal examination of the defendant's subject qualifications, domestic companies often choose to sue one or more domestic entities as jurisdictional connection points in domestic courts when they find that their games may be infringed upon by other overseas games. Moreover, considering the difficulty of serving process outside Chinese mainland jurisdiction, they may not sue overseas entities. However, this litigation strategy often faces the primary challenge during the substantive trial stage: whether the domestic entities as defendants actually participate in the operation of overseas gaming.
Llinks Lawyers represented a domestic entity client in a copyright and unfair competition lawsuit initiated by an online game company in a domestic court against overseas games. After accepting the client's commission, Llinks Lawyers presented a strong defense from the perspective that the domestic entity client did not participate in the operation of the overseas game, and recently obtained a favorable judgment.
