Delhi High Court Rules In Favour Of Gameskraft; Restrains Rogue Websites From Using 'Rummy Culture', 'Ludo Select' Marks
Ruling in favour of Gameskraft Technologies, the Delhi High Court has restrained various rogue websites, mobile applications and domain entities from using the registered trademarks “Playship”, “Plego”, “Ludo Select”, “Pocket 52”, “Rummy”, “Rummy Culture”, “Gameskraft” and “Culture of Champions.”
Justice Amit Bansal further restrained the defendant entities from infringing on the copyright vested with Gameskraft in the unique content of its websites- www.rummyculture.com, www.gamezy.com, www.playship.com, www.rummyprime.com, and www.pocket52.com or the apps hosted by it under the names “Rummy Culture”, “Gamezy Poker”, “Playship Rummy”, “Rummy Prime” and “Pocket52”.
The Court further ordered take down of 10 pages giving downloading links of the defendant mobile applications. It also directed owner of social media accounts on YouTube, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and other websites to take down the said handles operating under the name “Rummy Venture”.
Justice Bansal observed that the use of Gamekraft's “Rummy Culture” mark as part of the domain names and in the content of the defendant websites and the reference to its gaming platforms as an assurance of credibility by the defendants, made it wholly apparent that the sole intention of the defendants was to defraud Indian consumers into mistakenly believing that it were the genuine sites of Gameskraft.
“It is evident from the above that the defendants no.1 to 16 are misleading unsuspecting users on a daily basis into downloading various unknown apps, through suspicious links on their websites, and entrapping users wanting to use the plaintiffs' products into downloading dubious apps which have no connection whatsoever with the plaintiffs,” the Court said.
It added: “The usage of the aforementioned websites and infringing apps is not reflected on the plaintiffs' systems, and any money used in these apps is not deposited with the plaintiffs. Thus, the said apps pose a major financial risk to the public at large as the defendants' rogue websites use the plaintiffs' name for the defendants' unjust enrichment.”
The matter will now be heard on September 26.
Counsel for Plaintiffs: Mr. Sandeep Sethi, Senior Advocate with Mr. Arun Srikumar, Mr. Abhyudaya Shishodia & Mr. Ritwik Gupta, Advocates
Counsel for Defendants: Mr. Gaurav Barathi, Advocate for D- 33, 34 and 36
Title: GAMESKRAFT TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANR v. JOHN DOE AND ORS
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 719