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High Court orders notice on BCCI plea

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered notice on a petition by the Board of Control for Cricket in India to restrain one Sandeep Goel and Rediff.com India Ltd., Mumbai, from displaying or using the domain name/title indianfantasyleague.com or indianfantasyleague and logo or any other domain name or trademark deceptively similar to its trademark — Indian Premier League.

The Board prayed for an interim injunction directing the defendants to render a true and faithful account of all the profits earned by them using the impugned trademark IFL or the logo. It sought a direction to them to pay Rs. 10 lakh as damages. Mr. Goel was the owner of the website www.indianfantasyleague.com.

The Board said it had acquired the proprietary rights in the said name, title and trademark under the common law and was entitled to exclusively use the same.

The defendants had mischievously created the website and were using the trademark IFL and logo both of which were visually, structurally and phonetically deceptively similar to the IPL trademark.

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