THE Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court yesterday ordered Shanghai Banri Family Appliance Co Ltd to compensate Beijing Innovation Co Ltd, a Denmark-invested furniture company, 50,000 yuan (US$6,250) for patent violation.

Innovation received a patent for a sofabed designed by its parent company in China in July 2003. It found Banri was selling a similar sofabed in 2005. Banri argued it didn’t produce the sofabed itself but bought the product from a furniture market in Jiangsu Province.

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