{"id":18742,"date":"2018-11-04T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=18742"},"modified":"2018-11-04T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T16:41:30","slug":"hc-directs-e-commerce-site-to-ensure-products-for-sale-on-portal-are-not-counterfeits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=18742","title":{"rendered":"HC directs e-commerce site to ensure products for sale on portal are not counterfeits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 12.0pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">\u00a0In a step towards ensuring counterfeits of popular branded products are not sold on online marketplaces, the Delhi High Court has directed an e-commerce platform to make sure that each item put up for sale on its site is genuine.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">Justice Pratibha M Singh issued the direction, saying in the world of e-commerce, trademark owners face challenging times as sellers of infringing products seek shelter behind the platform&#8217;s legitimacy and added that those sites which &#8220;actively conspire, abet or aide, or induce&#8221; commission of unlawful acts, like sale of counterfeits, &#8220;cannot go scot-free&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;In the world of e-commerce, intellectual property (IP) owners face challenging times. This is because sellers of counterfeit or infringing products seek shelter behind the platform&#8217;s legitimacy.<\/span>&#8220;Moreover, if the sellers themselves are located on foreign shores and the trade mark owner cannot exercise any remedy against the seller who is selling counterfeits on the e-commerce platform, then the trade mark owner cannot be left remediless,&#8221; the court said.\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Needless to add, e-commerce websites and online marketplaces ought to operate with caution if they wish to enjoy the immunity provided to intermediaries,&#8221; it said.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Intermediaries, according to the Information Technology (IT) Act, includes e-commerce sites as it is providing services to customers on behalf of another person, the seller.<\/span>Under the IT Act, while inactive intermediaries have protection against infringing activities of the sellers &#8220;those e-commerce platforms which actively conspire, abet or aide, or induce commission of unlawful acts on their website cannot go scot free&#8221;, the court added.<\/span>It said that if the counterfeits do not turn out to be up to the mark, it is trademark owner&#8217;s equity and customer base that is diluted or lost and the seller of such products does not suffer.The observations by the bench came on a suit of trademark infringement by women&#8217;s luxury shoe brand &#8212; Christian Louboutin &#8212; which claimed that India-based e-commerce site Darveys.com was selling &#8220;impaired or counterfeit&#8221; goods in the name of the firm.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In a step towards ensuring counterfeits of popular branded products are not sold on online marketplaces, the Delhi High Court has directed an e-commerce platform to make sure that each item put up for sale on its site is genuine. 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