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Yahoo! Inc. v. Akash Arora & Anr.

ByAnkit Rastogi

Yahoo! Inc. v. Akash Arora & Anr. 1999 PTC (19) 201 (Delhi) Brief Facts: • Plaintiff was the owner of the trademark ‘Yahoo!’ and domain name ‘Yahoo.Com’. • The Defendants adopted the name ‘Yahooindia’ for similar services which as per the Plaintiff was identical to or deceptively similar to Plaintiff’s trademark ‘Yahoo!’. • Plaintiff instituted…

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Info Edge (India) Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. v. Shailesh Gupta and Anr.

ByAnkit Rastogi

Info Edge (India) Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. v. Shailesh Gupta and Anr. 98 (2002) DLT 499 Brief Facts: Plaintiff adopted the name ‘NAUKRI.COM’ in 1997 and since then the Plaintiff was carrying on the business under the aforesaid domain name. In 1999, Defendant registered two domain names ‘JOBSOURCEINDIA.COM’ & ‘NAUKARI.COM’ and was in the identical…