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India News: NEW DELHI: Trademarks being used as keywords by Google's search engine for its Ads Programme makes it liable for infringement and no "safe harbour" pr.
The Delhi High Court has ruled that Google is not entitled to the safe harbour protection under the Information Technology Act, 2000, as well as from the liability of trademark infringement where it...
A division bench of Justices Vibhu Bakhru and Amit Mahajan was hearing a case related to alleged trademark infringement allegations levelled by DRS Logistics and Agarwal Packers and Movers Pvt Ltd, both constituents of the DRS Group, against Google LLC.
Use of trademarks as keywords by Google in its Ads Programme does amount to 'use' under the intellectual property law and, in case of infringement, it cannot claim benefit of 'safe harbour' from liability under the law, the Delhi high court has said.