Intellectual Property Dispute
Wubi was also a party to the first legal case in China concerning intellectual property rights. The third version of Wubi was protected by a Chinese patent in 1986. The majority of computer vendors in the PRC in the early 1990s were selling computers with Wubi preinstalled without paying royalties to Wangma. In April 1992 Wang Yongmin brought a lawsuit against Dongnan, a company producing Hanka, a clone of Wubi (with an adapted interface and key memorisation). In December 1993 Beijing Intermediate People's Court (北京市中级法院) ordered Dongnan to pay Wangma 24 million yuan for breach of its intellectual property rights. However, a new dispute brought by Lenovo in 1994 led to a decision by the Beijing High Court (北京市高级法院) to treat Wubi as "public knowledge" citing decomposition of Chinese characters by five basic strokes as going back millennia.
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