Delhi High Court heard a trademark infringement suit by Meta formerly known as Facebook.
- Legal Thikana
- Jul 13, 2022
- 5 min read
Panasam Akshara | Delhi HC
Case-Meta Platforms,Inc v. Noufel Malol & ANR. Justice Navin Chawla awarded nominal damages of Rs.50000 in favour of Meta platforms Inc.and against defendants to pay cost of suit to Meta.In a trademark infringement suit filed by Meta formerly known as Facebook the Court has permanently stopped the use of names Facebake and Facecake, Facebook marks, Facebook visual presentation and other Facebook formative trademarks of social media giant.Meta moved to court after being aggrieved by Noufel Malol for adopting Facebake mark which he was allegedly mimicking the visual,font, commercial impression and same look ,was intentionally trading off significant goodwill established in Facebook marks.Plantiff files opposition against said application claiming that use of similar mark by defendant was infringement of statutory as well as common law rights also results in dilution and unfair competition by defendants.Plantiff claims that on service of ad-interim order of injunction,facebake changed to facecake which is equally similar to Meta's Facebook marks.Court was of a view that it cannot be disputed that the marks of Meta were well known in India and the user base and reach were evident from documents filed by them.The court of view that there are some differences between marks of plantiff and of defendants.However,the overall visual presented adopted by the defendants clearly shows the malafide intent of the defendants in obtaining unfair advantage by use of the mark similar to Meta.The court added that the same also leads to dilution of Meta's mark.The court claims that defendant malafide intent can be observed when they have changed only one alphabet after ad-interim order,however chose not to appear before this court to defend the suit in spite of service. Form Submission
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