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Lik-Sang counters Sony’s claims
Posted by Lisa on October 30, 2006 at 08:59 AM

Lik-Sang has released a statement in response to Sony’s accusation of the online retailer having a case of ‘sour grapes.’ Sony denied Lik-Sang’s accusations that its numerous lawsuits, launched against Lik-Sang in defense of Sony trademarks, copyrights and design rights, had sunk the company.

Astronomical legal costs

Lik-Sang marketing manager, Pascal Clarysse, had this to say. “While they ‘strongly denied that their actions have had anything to do with [Lik-Sang’s] closing’ in their statement, they still had the time to send a 15 page fax less than 24 hours later, outlining the terms of the order made by the English court last week and asking Lik-Sang to pay the sum of £100 000 ($190 000) just for their legal costs before 4pm on November 1.” Clarysse also pointed out that Lik-Sang had in fact also spent well over a year contesting Sony’s actions in courts and disputed Sony’s earlier representations that they had made no appearances in the courtroom.

The bottom line

Lik-Sang disputed that members of Sony would have purchased Japanese PSPs from Lik-Sang for investigatory purposes alone and remained amazed that such orders were not revealed to the court. Lik-Sang have been forced to close their doors and many people have “lost their basis for existence because of corporate lawsuits for something that is not only regarded as lawful in Hong Kong, it is considered to be beneficial for consumers (free trade).” Clarysse ended his statement by saying that “Sony should be proud of having such a die-hard import gamers’ community rushing to buy their products and supporting them with a passion. Instead, they march all over us.”

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