It has been revealed that Pokemon Co., Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against six companies based in China for copyright infringement and unauthorized competition.
This was revealed by the materials submitted to the stock exchange by one of the filed companies, Gein-Chu-China Heavy Industries. According to the document, Pokemon has applied for an order to develop, distribute, operate, and promote the copy game of Pokemon reprint in Chinese, which is operated unauthorized in Chinese. In addition, it has requested that 500 million yuan (approximately 10.1 billion yen) damages and requests to apologize on popular Chinese websites, SNS, and major mobile app stores such as Shinnami, Tencent, and Netease. 。
The Pokemon Reprint version is being distributed in the Android app store operated by major companies such as Tencent, Huawei, and Xiaomi in addition to the Chinese App Store. The total sales expensive exceeded 300 million yuan (about 6 billion yen) by 2016, one year after the release, and the monthly sales exceeded 30 million yuan (about 680 million yen). In 2021, the company's sales increased 24.5 % year-on-year to 481.6 million yuan (approximately 9.7 billion yen), and net income increased by nearly 58 % to 272 million yuan (about 4.2 billion yen).
Behind this is that some Pokemon titles cannot be played. In China, in 2017, the distribution of Pokemon GO, which uses location information and maps, was suspended for national security concerns.
The Gong-China-China Heavy Industries Lord, with a market capitalization of 6.1 billion yuan (approximately ¥ 123.8 billion), has not yet been judged in court, so it is possible to judge the impact on the company's current and future profits. He says he can't.
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