Delhi Excessive Court docket Orders E-Commerce Platforms to Delist Merchandise Infringing on Reliance, Jio Emblems

The Delhi Excessive Court docket has ordered Amazon, Flipkart, Indiamart and varied different e-commerce providers within the nation to take down listings for varied fast-moving shopper items (FMCG) merchandise from their platforms. In a dynamic injuction handed final week, the Excessive Court docket stated that the businesses infringing on Reliance’s emblems couldn’t use the corporate’s model names or comparable designs that might permit their items to be handed off as merchandise manufactured by Reliance. They’ve additionally been directed to disclose the postal addresses, telephone quantity, electronic mail addresses, checking account particulars and telephone numbers of the manufacturers that had been promoting the fraudulent items on these platforms.

Delhi Excessive Court docket Grants Advert-Interim Injunction to Reliance

In an order printed on July 10 (through Bar and Bench), Justice Saurabh Banerjee ordered Flipkart, Amazon, Indiamart, Meesho, Snapdeal, and different platforms to take down a number of listings of fraudulent merchandise from 21 sellers that infringed on Reliance and Jio’s emblems. The sellers have additionally been restrained from manufacturing, promoting, and advertising these merchandise utilizing the corporate’s names or emblems.

The corporate had approached the excessive courtroom stating that varied listings for FMCG items had been discovered on these providers by third events, who had been utilizing Reliance and Jio emblems with out authorisation. These merchandise had been being bought by unknown sellers working below fictitious names and identities.

The Court docket referred to photographs of the infringing merchandise submitted by Reliance and the corporate’s emblems. It held that the design and presentation utilized by the sellers on these platforms imitated the corporate’s emblems and this might confuse clients, making them affiliate the merchandise with Reliance and Jio. 

Along with taking down the listings for these merchandise, the Court docket additionally directed these e-commerce platforms to submit particulars of all of the 21 sellers responsible of infringing the corporate’s emblems. These embody their postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers, 

The Delhi Excessive Court docket will hear the principle go well with (Reliance Industries Restricted v Pawan Kumar Gupta and Others) on November 13. In the intervening time, the e-commerce platforms had been granted 4 weeks to file their replies with the small print on the fraudulent sellers, and an extra two weeks after that to file a rejoinder, if any.