{"id":1011028,"date":"2026-05-30T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011028"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:08:18","slug":"delhi-hc-fines-google-rs-30-lakh-in-trademark-as-ads-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/delhi-hc-fines-google-rs-30-lakh-in-trademark-as-ads-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC fines Google Rs 30 lakh in trademark-as-ads case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed Google to pay Rs 30 lakh as damages to Hindware for using the sanitaryware major\u2019s trademark as keywords for its AdWords programme. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Mini Pushkarna, while dealing with two lawsuits by Hindware Ltd, held that the use of trademarks as keywords amounted to \u201cunfair advantage\u201d under the Trademarks Act and restrained Google LLC and Google India from using \u2018Hindware\u2019 or \u2018Hindware Sanitaryware\u2019, \u2018Hindware Sanitary\u2019 or \u2018Hindware Sanitaryware India\u2019 as part of advertising keywords for its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed Google to pay Rs 30 lakh as damages to Hindware for using the sanitaryware major\u2019s trademark as keywords for its AdWords programme. Justice Mini Pushkarna, while dealing with two lawsuits by Hindware Ltd, held that the use of trademarks as keywords amounted to \u201cunfair advantage\u201d under the Trademarks Act and restrained Google LLC and Google India from using \u2018Hindware\u2019 or \u2018Hindware Sanitaryware\u2019, \u2018Hindware Sanitary\u2019 or \u2018Hindware Sanitaryware India\u2019 as part of advertising keywords for its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011033,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011028\/revisions\/1011033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}