A two year legal battle recently drew to an end favoring the  Danfoss Group Global in a trademark dispute.  Beijing High People's Court denied claims of the appellant, Shandong Zibo Danfosi Control Instruments and upheld the trial court decision.

In 2005, the Danfoss Group  found that, without any authorization, Zibo Danfosi Control Instruments Co. Ltd. used identical representations of the mark "丹佛斯" on their products and the packages.  To that end, in April 2006 Danfoss instituted a proceeding before the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court.  In December 2006, the trial court ruled that the defendant should cease the act of trademark infringement and indemnify 150,000 yuan in damages. Then the defendant appealed to the Beijing High People's Court earlier this year and the appellate court upheld the first instance judgment.