{"id":1011131,"date":"2026-05-30T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011131"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:04:46","slug":"delhi-high-court-fines-google-%e2%82%b930-lakh-over-trademark-use-as-ad-keyword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/delhi-high-court-fines-google-%e2%82%b930-lakh-over-trademark-use-as-ad-keyword\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi high court fines Google \u20b930 lakh over trademark use as ad keyword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court has found Google guilty of infringing the trademark rights of a bathroom fittings maker by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising keyword, and imposed a \u20b930 lakh fine on the tech giant, in an order that could have far-reaching effects on the online advertisement market.<\/p>\n<p>Google was found to have allowed rival companies of India\u2019s Hindware to use the term \u201cHindware\u201d as a keyword to target their own advertising, without the company\u2019s consent, which the court said amounted to \u201cfree-riding\u201d on Hindware\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court has found Google guilty of infringing the trademark rights of a bathroom fittings maker by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising keyword, and imposed a \u20b930 lakh fine on the tech giant, in an order that could have far-reaching effects on the online advertisement market. Google was found to have allowed rival companies of India\u2019s Hindware to use the term \u201cHindware\u201d as a keyword to target their own advertising, without the company\u2019s consent, which the court said amounted to \u201cfree-riding\u201d on Hindware\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011131","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011132,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011131\/revisions\/1011132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}