Delhi High Court Rules In Favour Of Gameskraft; Restrains Rogue Websites From Using ‘Rummy Culture’, ‘Ludo Select’ Marks
Ruling in favour of Gameskraft Applied sciences, the Delhi Excessive Court docket has restrained varied rogue web sites, cell functions and area entities from utilizing the registered logos “Playship”, “Plego”, “Ludo Choose”, “Pocket 52”, “Rummy”, “Rummy Tradition”, “Gameskraft” and “Tradition of Champions.”
Justice Amit Bansal additional restrained the defendant entities from infringing on the copyright vested with Gameskraft within the distinctive content material 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 below the names “Rummy Tradition”, “Gamezy Poker”, “Playship Rummy”, “Rummy Prime” and “Pocket52”.
The Court docket additional ordered take down of 10 pages giving downloading hyperlinks of the defendant cell functions. It additionally directed proprietor of social media accounts on YouTube, Instagram, X (previously Twitter) and different web sites to take down the mentioned handles working below the identify “Rummy Enterprise”.
Justice Bansal noticed that the usage of Gamekraft’s “Rummy Tradition” mark as a part of the domains and within the content material of the defendant web sites and the reference to its gaming platforms as an assurance of credibility by the defendants, made it wholly obvious that the only real intention of the defendants was to defraud Indian customers into mistakenly believing that it have been the real websites of Gameskraft.
“It’s evident from the above that the defendants no.1 to 16 are deceptive unsuspecting customers every day into downloading varied unknown apps, by way of suspicious hyperlinks on their web sites, and entrapping customers wanting to make use of the plaintiffs’ merchandise into downloading doubtful apps which don’t have any connection by any means with the plaintiffs,” the Court docket mentioned.
It added: “The utilization of the aforementioned web sites and infringing apps will not be mirrored on the plaintiffs’ techniques, and any cash utilized in these apps will not be deposited with the plaintiffs. Thus, the mentioned apps pose a serious monetary danger to the general public at giant because the defendants’ rogue web sites use the plaintiffs’ identify 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
Quotation: 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 720
