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Author Natural Earth Data Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia China Jane Lambert There are almost two and a half times as many internet users in China as there are citizens of the USA and some of the biggest e-commerce companies on earth are located in that country. These include  Alibaba  in  Hangzhou ,  Baidu  in Beijing and  Tencent  in Guangzhou. A lot of disputes arise anywhere in e-commerce between suppliers and their customers. internet service providers and their subscribers and between different internet users, In China, they can be referred to three specialist internet courts based respectively in Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou. The first of those courts was established in Hangzhou which has an  English language website . According to that website, the court resolves contract disputes arising from online shopping, product liability disputes arising from online s...

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In K-Swiss v OHIM [2008] EUECJ C-144/07 (2 October 2008) the ECJ dismissed an appeal against the CFI's refusal to entertain an application to set aside a Board of Appeal decision on the ground that the proceedings had been filed out of time. Art 63 (5) of the CTM regulation actions against decisions of the Boards of Appeal must be brought within 2 months of notification. Rule 61 (2) of the implementing regulation requires notifications to be made by the following means: "(a) by post in accordance with Rule 62; (b) by hand delivery in accordance with Rule 63; (c) by deposit in a post box at [OHIM] in accordance with Rule 64; (d) by telecopier and other technical means in accordance with Rule 65; (e) by public notification in accordance with Rule 66.' Notification of the Board's decision was made by DHL courier rather than by post but there was evidence that the decision had been communicated to the applicant by 28 Oct 2005. Proceedings were not instituted ...