[photopress:Google_charge.jpg,full,alignright]It would be a great pity if some of the legal practices of the United States are adopted in China. Note, with regret, the case of Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. (北京谷歌科技有限公司) which is suing Google China (谷歌信息技术（中国）有限公司) for disrupting its business — both companies use the name 谷歌 and this, it is claimed, causes confusion.
Tian Yunshan, a Guge company official, told Reuters, ‘We just want Google to change their commercial name. We have already passed our demands on to Google . . . We will see what happens in court.’
He said the search engine’s Chinese name — a transliteration of the English word Google — was also used in Beijing Guge’s commercially registered name.
The Beijing News reports Beijing Guge opened for business on 19 April, 2006, one week after Google announced its new Chinese name the 12th.
However, Tian Yunshan claims that his company had applied to use the name Guge in March, prior to formal business operations. Google’s spokesperson pushed its date back even earlier, claiming that applications were filed in January.
The Beijing News reports the case had been accepted by a court in Beijing’s Haidian district. It was not immediately clear if the case could have any chance of success.
Tian declined to comment on Beijing Guge’s operations or its products or services, saying it was ‘not convenient’ to disclose such details. Possibly because of their sparsity.
Source: Yahoo News