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ARTICLE · 18 JUNE 2010

Super Cassettes Granted Injunction in Cyber-Squatting Suit

Cyber-squatting is a crime that is commonly defined as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with mala fide intent to make profit from the goodwill of a domain name registered in somebody else’s name.

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Cyber-squatting is a crime that is commonly defined as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with mala fide intent to make profit from the goodwill of a domain name registered in somebody else's name. The cybersquatter offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. These practices include the deliberate mala fide registration in the hope of being able to enable one to take unfair advantage of the reputation attached to those marks. The recent judgment of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. Vs Wang Zhi Zhu Ce Yong HU and Ors. {2009(39) PTC 162 (Del)} highlights this phenomenon and its severity.

The Instant suit was filed by Super Cassettes Industries for the relief of permanent injunction against the defendants Zhi Wang Zhi Zhu Ce Yong HU (later referred as Zhi Wang) for using Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.'s trademark/trade name SUPER CASSETTES or any other name deceptively similar

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