Editorial Summary

Nike has won an appeal against Chinese flash maker Xiao Xiao in a Beijing court on June 15, reports Beijing Star Daily. Xiaoxiao won a lawsuit against Nike in December 2004 claiming that Nike's stickfigure ad infringed on Xiaoxiao's popular stick figure flash animations. Xiaoxiao was awarded 300,000 Yuan. Nike appealed the decision, arguing that the stickfigure image was universal and not Xiaoxiao's exclusive intellectual property. Xiaoxiao produces the international cult favorite flash animation and games in which a stick figure battles a series of stick enemies. Xiaoxiao's website is available at www.xiaoxiaomovie.com.