DETAILS OF INFRINGERS CANNOT BE MASKED UNDER THE GARB OF PRIVACY FEATURES, RULES HIGH COURT OF DELHI

Published On: 05/01/2023

Practice Area: Intellectual Property

Authors:

Bharadwaj Jaishankar
Kshitij Parashar
With the advancement in technology and e-commerce websites, there has been a rapid increase in sale of counterfeit products, identity fraud etc. Recently, the High Court of Delhi (“High Court”) in several cases has granted interim injunctions against several fake/ rogue websites, involved in selling counterfeit products or circulating copyrighted content illegally. A peculiar aspect in all these cases has been that the High Court has analysed the legitimacy of privacy protect features offered by various Domain Name Registrars to registrants of domain names. In this article, we have attempted to analyse the recent judicial trend and the impact of the same on domain name registrars and brand owners.