On 28 March, 2013, the third civil department of Guangdong
Provincial High People's Court openly delivered its decision on
the lawsuit of Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd
("Qihoo") v. Tencent
Inc.("Tencent") for abusing dominant
market position, denying all claims of the Plaintiff Qihoo and
ordering Qihoo to bear the court fees fully. The case that
attracted tremendous attention within the field or even throughout
the society has so far achieved a preliminary conclusion.
Facts
Qihoo alleged that Tencent's QQ software is dangerous for
customers' security so that it launched 360 Privacy Protector,
QQ Bodyguard and 360 Security Guard one after another to block the
function of QQ. On 3 November, 2010, Tencent published A Letter
to QQ's Users calling for users to make an
"either-or" choice between QQ software and 360 software
and further claiming that it will refuse to provide QQ software
service for 360's users and will deploy technical instruments
to block users who
