A court in Guangzhou (southern China) has ruled in favor of Chinese company Daming Lianhe, in its dispute with Japanese competitor Okamoto concerning who had manufactured the world’s thinnest condom.
The court said condoms manufactured by the Chinese company, with a thickness of 0.036 mm, holds the Guinness record for being the thinnest in the world, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper reported Tuesday.
The court ordered the Japanese firm to pay a symbolic fine of one Yuan or $0.16 for damages to its Chinese rival, and stop promoting its condoms with “thinnest record holder” tagline, considering Daming Lianhe snatched the record in December 2013.
The Japanese condom-maker entered the Guinness Book in March 2012 thanks to its 0.038 mm-thin product, which was broken by the Chinese firm barely 20 months later with a version that was 0.002 mm thinner.
Okamoto, however, continued to market its condoms as the thinnest in the world even after Daming Lianhe became the new record-holder, following which the latter filed a complaint accusing it of misleading advertising.
