Two Chinese companies and a local firm are embroiled in a copyright tussle following the installation of two scanners for cargo trucks for the Royal Customs Department in Bukit Chagar, Johor.

China-based Nuctech Company Ltd, which has been providing scanners for the department, filed a suit against local company Pan Asiatic Technologies Sdn Bhd (PAT), and a rival Chinese company consisting its former employees for alleged copyright infringement.

It claimed that the facility in Bukit Chagar had used its patented technology for the scanning of cargo trucks coming across the causeway.