{"id":1197,"date":"2023-12-14T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:35:01","slug":"delhi-hc-restrains-the-use-of-the-domain-name-dialmytrip-com-for-being-confusingly-similar-to-makemytrip-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/delhi-hc-restrains-the-use-of-the-domain-name-dialmytrip-com-for-being-confusingly-similar-to-makemytrip-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC restrains the use of the domain name Dialmytrip.com for being confusingly similar to makemytrip.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAKEMYTRIP INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED \u00a0<\/strong>Plaintiff\u00a0 Vs. <\/strong>DIALMYTRIP TECH PRIVATE LIMITED \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Defendant<\/p>\n

CS(COMM) 815\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0(CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Facts:<\/u><\/strong> In the present suit, the grievance of the Plaintiff is that the Defendant is using the mark and name \u2018Dialmytrip\u2019 in respect of financial and other services but the Defendant has recently expanded its services to tours and travel as well. The Plaintiff is aggrieved by the use of the impugned name, mark and domain name dialmytrip by the Defendant. The Defendant is a company engaged in similar business as that of the Plaintiff providing travel related services including selling and booking tickets, hotel reservations as also arranging trips both in India and Internationally. The Defendant is operating through its website with the domain name \u2018www.dialmytrip.com\u2019 and \u2018www.dmtgroup.in\u2019. The Plaintiff avers that it became aware of the Defendant\u2019s business and use of the mark in May, 2023 during its regular check on trade mark registry website.<\/p>\n

Issue:<\/u><\/strong> Whether the defendant should be restrained from using domain name \u2018www.dialmytrip.com\u2019?<\/p>\n

Arguments on behalf of counsel for plaintiff:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The submission of Mr. Sai Deepak, ld. Counsel for the Plaintiff is that the mark MakeMyTrip has already been protected against misuse, by use of marks such as \u2018PickMyTrip\u2019 vide order dated 31st October, 2018 in CS (COMM) 1210\/2018 titled MakeMy Trip (India) Pvt. Ltd. v. Priyadarshini Air Wings Pvt. Ltd., and \u2018MyTripBazaar\u2019 vide judgment dated 27th February, 2020 in CS (COMM) 430\/2019 titled MakeMyTrip (India) Pvt. Ltd. v. MTB Travel Planner Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Etc. The submission is that the use of \u2018Dialmytrip\u2019 in respect of any services would constitute infringement, passing off and dilution of the Plaintiff\u2019s mark \u2018MakeMyTrip\u2019.<\/p>\n

Held:<\/u><\/strong> The court disposed off the present suit holding that, \u201cthe Defendant is restrained from using the using the mark\/name \u2018Dialmytrip\u2019 in respect of tour, travel, hospitality and all other services. The Defendant has two domain names www.dialmytrip.com and www.dmtgroup.in. The first domain name shall not be used in respect of tour, travel, hospitality, hotels cabs or any other travel related services. The Defendant is, however, free to use the second domain name www.dmtgroup.in in respect of such services.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The court observed that, \u201cIn the opinion of this court, the marks Makemytrip and Dialmytrip are confusingly similar with each other. Especially considering the manner in which online business relating to travel is conducted, the Defendant\u2019s business and name is likely to be perceived as an extension of the Plaintiff\u2019s well known business or as an affiliate\/connected business. Such confusion is also likely to lead to dilution of the Plaintiff\u2019s mark and name as also brand equity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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MAKEMYTRIP INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED \u00a0Plaintiff\u00a0 Vs. DIALMYTRIP TECH PRIVATE LIMITED \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Defendant CS(COMM) 815\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0(CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH) Facts: In the present suit, the grievance of the Plaintiff is that the Defendant is using the mark and name \u2018Dialmytrip\u2019 in respect of financial and other services but the Defendant has recently expanded its services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judgement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}