The amount involved was 500 million, and the listed company was sued by Pokémon. What was the situation?

Author:Daily Economic News Time:2022.08.31

As we all know, "Pokémon" (also known as "Pet Elf") is a world -renowned IP. Just recently, Pokémon of the Co., Ltd. has sued six domestic companies.

On August 31, Zhongnan Culture (SZ002445, a stock price of 2.71 yuan/share, and a market value of 6.481 billion yuan) issued "Announcement of Zhongnan Red Culture Group Co., Ltd. on major litigation issues".

The announcement stated that six defendants, including the company, were prosecuted by Pokémon.

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According to the announcement, the plaintiff Co., Ltd. Pokémon is the related right holder of the series of video games "Pokémon". The plaintiff found the same game (referred to as "charged game") in the major mainstream mobile phone app stores such as Apple APPSTORE and Huawei Application Market. There are a lot of content to infringe the copyright of the plaintiff rights.

The case involved in the case was RMB 500 million. At present, the case has entered the proceedings of the lawsuit, and the trial has not yet been tried.

The plaintiff's claim includes:

The order of the sixth defendants stopped the right to copy, the right to adaptation, the right to distribution, and the communication of information networks, that is, the behavior of stopping operations, publishing, providing, and promoting the infringing game involved in the case;

Ordering the six defendants to stop damage to the improper competition of the plaintiff's legitimate rights and interests;

The defendant of the sixth defendants via Sina.com, Sohu.com, Tencent.com, Netease.com, Apple App Store, Tencent Application Bao, Huawei Application Market, 360 Mobile Assistant, Baidu Mobile Assistant, Xiaomi Game Center, Vivo App Store, OPPO Software Store, Meizu, Meizu Mobile application platforms such as application stores, PP assistants, and its own official websites, social media and other websites and platforms to apologize and eliminate the impact on the plaintiff;

The order of the sixth defendants compensated the plaintiff for the economic loss of RMB 500 million due to the economic loss of the plaintiff and the unfair competition infringement; All litigation costs and preservation costs in this case.

The announcement states that the company will actively organize the response to the lawsuit and resolutely safeguard the interests of the company and shareholders. If there is relevant progress, the company will fulfill the obligation of information disclosure in a timely manner, and investors are requested to pay attention to investment risks.

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Public information shows that Zhongnanhong Culture Group Co., Ltd. was founded in May 2003 and was launched in July 2010.

Its main business is the investment, planning, production, distribution, marketing, marketing and derivative development business of TV series and film projects, artist training and artist brokerage; copyright development, operation; game production, distribution; equity investment in the cultural industry.

It is worth noting that the most profitable business of Zhongnan culture is metal products with revenue ratio of 83.99%and a profit ratio of 61.47%.

On August 25, Central and South Culture released the semi -annual report of 2022, and the company realized operating income of 301 million yuan, an increase of 51.59%year -on -year; net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 199 million yuan, a year -on -year decrease of 52.50%; the basic earnings per share were 0.08 yuan per share of 0.08 yuan Essence