Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. held that the packing of 55 products sold by Procter & Gamble Co, Guangzhou and Beijing Carrefour Commercial Co., Ltd., used the font of Founder’s copyrights and then lodged a law suit against the two companies.

　　Haidian District People's Court concluded the case on December 23rd and rejected all claims of Founder. The Court noted that the font of words as independent works of art to be protected is of many unexplained inconsistencies, but also difficulties to determine the criteria. From the social effects of characters’ usage, if the character of each word in the art form which has substantive similarity may lead to an infringement, it will inevitably affect the symbol function of Chinese characters, so the public will has no choice and it is difficult to judge and bear the consequences of the action. It is also an obstacle on the normal use and development of characters as the cultural symbols, which does not comply with the originality of copyright protection laws.

　　                                                                  By IP Channel of People's Daily Online