Sogou held that “360 security guards” had obstructed users to install and use the Sogou browser and damaged its software service. Thus Sogou requested the court to order the defendant to stop immediately the torts with compensation of 50 million yuan, plus publishing an apology on the eye-catching position of the defendant’s official website homepage as well as on the Legal Daily continuously for a month.
While Qihoo 360 insisted that the contents, such as “the plaintiff tampered with its browser without permission but not admitting its malicious acts,” “the plaintiff retaliated against the defendant because of its failure of acquiring Sogou,” etc., posted on the Sina official microblog of Sogou browser had seriously harmed its commercial reputation and product credibility and thus resulted in serious loses. Given this, Qihoo 360 demanded the court to make an order that Sogou should immediately stop the torts and place an apology announcement on China’s major network media and newspapers for at least one month, with compensation of 50 million yuan.
In the afternoon of May 8th, Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court opened the first-instance trials of the two cases successively. And the two cases are in a further trial.
(Source: China IP Magazine)
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