Delhi High Court grants permanent injunction against Facebake or Facecake from using the well known trademark Facebook.

Delhi High Court: Navin Chawla J. restrains Facebake and Facecake based in Bangalore which sells confectionary items like cakes etc. from using a deceptively similar and a ‘well known trademark' as per Section 2(1)(zg) Trade Marks Act, 1999, Facebook which is a popular social media networking site.

Meta Platforms Inc. ‘plaintiff’, the parent company of Facebook which is a popular social media giant is inter-alia seeking a decree of permanent injunction restraining the defendants from using the mark ‘Facebake’ and/or the domain name www.facebake.in; the email IDs facebake.mail@gmail.com; facebake649@gmail.com, as also for seeking rendition of accounts. Despite two restraining orders being passed earlier by the Court, the Defendant 1 incorporated a company by the name of ‘Ehrlich Foods and Beverages Pvt. Ltd’ and is one of its directors seeking the registration of a deceptively-similar mark ‘Facecake’.