MUMBAI: In what should have been expected, the Bombay High Court has banned sports firm Grace India Sports Pvt Ltd (GISPL) from using any IPL-related terminology for a league the firm was intending to start.
A report in Mumbai Mirror said that the court has barred GISPL from infringing on BCCI’s trademark “IPL”.
GISPL cannot use the domain names/websites www.ijplt20.com, www.juniorsipl-.com and www.ijplth.com, “and/or any other trade mark and/or domain name/website containing the BCCI’s said trade mark IPL or any other trademark identical with and/or deceptively similar to BCCI’s registered trade-marks IPL/ IPLT wenty20 in respect of the same/similar services and/or goods,” Justice SJ Kathawalla said in the order.
BCCI had asked GISPL not to plan any such event till they gave approval. Despite that, the company had announced the tournament with Gautam Gambhir as the brand ambassador. Though GISPL stopped the plans of doing the event after BCCI wrote to its affliated organisations to not take part in the event, GISPL apparently started reviving the project which prompted BCCI to take the matter to court.
