Ant Group and Hangzhou Rongdong Technology's first-instance civil judgment on trademark infringement disputes announced. The plaintiff is Ant Group, and the defendant is Hangzhou Rongdong Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate of Wangdaitianxia.

According to the judgment, the plaintiff Ant Group believes that the defendant Hangzhou Rongdong Company maliciously used "borrowed ant installment" as the name of the accused App, which was similar to the trademark in question, and used it in multiple places, infringed Ant Group's exclusive right to use the registered trademark involved in the case. Ant Group requested Rongdong Company compensate its economic losses of RMB 2 million (including reasonable rights protection costs).

The defendant Hangzhou Rongdong argued that its server did not renew after its expiration at the end of 2017 and early 2018. No one in the team knew the technology, and no one was operating the App involved in the case, and even the back-end account and password were not known. It was not until this lawsuit that the defendant contacted the previous technical staff to find that the APP involved in the case was still displayed on an Android terminal. After downloading, it was found that it could not be opened, and the next operation could not be performed. As a listed company with a market value of hundreds of billions, the plaintiff directly sued the defendant and demanded a huge compensation of 2 million yuan without communicating with the defendant, which is unbearable for small and micro enterprises like the defendant.

In the end, the judgment of this case was that Hangzhou Rongdong Technology Co., Ltd. to compensate Ant Group for economic losses (including reasonable expenses for rights protection) of 250,000 yuan.