[1] The company is owned by China Film Group Corporation.
IMAX sued CFGS and related companies for theft of intellectual property; this court action was heard on 18 June 2014.
[3] IMAX alleged that Gary Tsui (Chinese name: Cui Xiaoyu, 崔晓宇), a former employee that worked for IMAX from 1999-2009, stole confidential information on proprietary technology and set up competing businesses.
In 2014 IMAX won a court victory in Canada upholding that Tsui had stolen the technology to build up his competing company.
[7] IMAX hoped that the Canadian court victory would allow successful legal action in China.