Recently, the copyright battle on the APP design between Netease (NASDAQ: NTES) and Tencent (SEHK: 700), two major internet companies in China, has been widely reported by local medias, and today’s essay is the digest of the news report and the comments from us.

According to the news of Sina Tech on 12^th April afternoon (note: the link is in Chinese), Netease stated its news app has been plagiarized by Rencent and demanded the latter to withdraw the infringing app. It’s also mentioned in Netease’s statement that the Tencent News App for iPhone 2.0 version plagiarizes the layout, comment page, picture page’s design, including the app function and the appearance design.