The Delhi High Court restrained an online portal ‘www.askme.com’ from carrying out its business following allegations that it had infringed the copyright of another portal ‘Just Dial.com’.
Justice Indermeet Kaur Kocchar, while restraining www.askme.com’ from carrying out its business, appointed two lawyers as court commissioners and asked them to visit the Mumbai and Delhi-based offices of the portal to verify the allegations levelled against it.
The court also directed the court commissioners to conduct a thorough survey of the offices and collect all database and floppies to be placed before it.
The court was hearing a petition filed by the portal, ‘Just Dial.com’, which alleged that the rival portal was using its database and was violating its copyright.
’It is evident from the copied database which contain a large number of identical spelling mistakes’, the petitioners alleged.
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