Alipay was sued again and this time it was "Daowei" launched in 2016

There is a netizen said，Alipay was sued again and this time it was "Daowei" launched in 2016.

It is said that it was a trademark battle. The plantiff is Beijing Linjia Technology Inc.(北京邻家科技有限公司） which owned a app named "daoway". Judging from the time, Alipay 's Daowei lauching is obviously later than the time of "daoway" trademark registration of Beijing Linjia Technology Inc.
　　
Judging from their function, Alipay's "Daowei" function allowed the user publish their individual needs and using "daowei" to search for the relevant service provider,which, was pretty familiar to the app "daoway". 

Official websites of Daoway

As a result, Beijing Linjia Technology thought that whether from the point of time or function, Alipay 's "Daowei" had already constituted infringement, and they has submit a case to Beijing Haidian District people's court on December 21, asked Alipay to stop the infringing act, publish a official statement, clarify the facts, eliminate the influence, apologize and compensation for the economic loss.The court accepted the case on December 23.

"Chinese tech giant Alibaba has launched a new program: a platform on which users can hire a helping hand, whether they need someone to repair their phone, repaint their house, or even grab them a roll of toilet paper in an emergency."(Sixth Tone)

The program,called "Daowei", initially started as an April Fools’ joke but launched officially on September 2016. It can be accessed through Alibaba’s mobile payment app Alipay,and for now it’s available in Shanghai,Beijing,Hangzhou and Shenzhen.

“Daowei, meaning both “to be in position” and “to be adequate,” opens to a split screen that reads: “I help others, others help me.” When a user clicks through, they’ll see a map showing others nearby who are offering services. Services can be filtered into groups such as tutors, photographers, handymen, and “running legs” — people who will run errands for a fee.”

Screenshots from ‘Daowei’ show the split screen (left) and a map with nearby users (right).