By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: July 11, 2022 8:33:59 pm Meta Platforms in 2020 had filed the suit against Noufel Malol, the owner of ‘Facebake’, for a permanent injunction to restrain him from using the mark ‘Facebake’, the website ‘www.facebake.in’ and related email ids. (Image: Reuters, representational)In an order on a suit filed by Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, the Delhi High Court has permanently restrained the owner of a Bangalore-based cake shop from using the name ‘Facebake’ or ‘Facecake’ or any other Facebook trademarks for its products and services. Justice Navin Chawla also said the shop owner will deliver all finished and unfinished materials, including locks, signage, cards, stationary, accessories, packaging, labels and other material bearing the ‘Facebake’ marks or any mark deceptively similar to Facebook, to Meta for the purpose of erasure or destruction. The court also awarded nominal damages of Rs 50,000 in favour of Meta and asked the shop owner to pay the cost of the suit to the social media giant. It said that though there is some distinction between the marks of the Meta and the defendant, the overall visual representation adopted by the defendant clearly depicts “the mala fide…
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