Beijing Haidian District People's Court Accepts Baidu’s Enforcement Application Requiring Sogou to Comply with Verdict in T...
July 13 2018 - 11:49PM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) applauds the decision today by the
Beijing Haidian District People's Court (or “the Court”) to accept
Baidu’s enforcement application, requiring Sogou to comply with the
outcome and compensation terms of the Court’s judgment in favor of
Baidu in the long-standing traffic hijacking dispute. Baidu
submitted the enforcement application in response to Sogou’s
failure to meet its compensation obligations as outlined in the
final judgment of the case in May 2018.
Baidu commenced the case against Sogou in 2014
after some users discovered that when using the Sogou input method
to search for text in the Baidu search box, they would see prompts
in a drop-down box, that if clicked upon, would automatically
direct them to the relevant search results page of Sogou. Baidu
believes that Sogou’s behavior went against the principle of fair
competition. It interfered with user experience and infringed upon
the rights and interests of Baidu.
In 2015, the Beijing Haidian District People's
Court in their first-instance judgment agreed that Sogou’s traffic
hijacking had constituted unfair competition and ordered Sogou to
immediately stop the traffic hijacking, publicly apologize on their
official website, and compensate Baidu for financial losses of
500,000 yuan. Sogou refused to accept the judgment and made an
appeal.
On May 25, 2018, the Beijing Intellectual Property
Court made their final judgment which dismissed Sogou’s appeal and
upheld the first-instance judgment, which ruled in favor of Baidu.
Despite almost a month and a half passing since the final judgment,
Sogou has refused to honor the judgment terms and issue an apology.
Baidu, therefore, submitted an enforcement application to the
Court, which was accepted by the Court in early July.
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