Wino said in a statement on Saturday that the matter is now listed for further proceedings on July 4.
The platform said that in March, it discovered that MPL copied its proprietary game ‘World War’ with a similar product, in an identical format with the identical name.
When this was brought to MPL’s notice on March 28, they allegedly took down the format completely from their platform.
“However, in a complete volte-face, MPL re-commenced using the entire identical format with each of the distinctive features in use by Wino, by 2nd April,” said the vernacular gaming platform.
This time, MPL Are named their tournament as ‘Team Clash’, but the notifications/pop-ups sent to users still used ‘World War’, the company alleged.
The matter was heard before Justice Naveen Challah in the Delhi High Court on Friday.
“MPL’s counsel stated that the MPL has stopped using the mark ‘World War’ and was willing to give an undertaking that the mark ‘World War’ shall not be used with the Defendant’s game/offering,” according to Wino.
Concerning the other allegations made by Wino, MPL’s Counsel made a statement that MPL shall attempt to resolve the Wino then sent a legal notice to MPL and when MPL refused to cease and desist from taking down the Format, Wino was forced to file a suit seeking injunction to restrain MPL from continuing to use the format on account of copyright infringement, passing off and unfair competition.
Commencing in April 2020, the game currently has nearly 80 million registered users.
Wino said it has applied for a patent for the invention, copyright registration in relation to the expression of the Format, and trademark for ‘World War’. Matter through negotiations with Wino.
Wino said in a statement on Saturday that the matter is now listed for further proceedings on July 4.
The platform said that in March, it discovered that MPL copied its proprietary game ‘World War’ with a similar product, in an identical format with the identical name.
When this was brought to MPL’s notice on March 28, they allegedly took down the format completely from their platform.
“However, in a complete volte-face, MPL re-commenced using the entire identical format with each of the distinctive features in use by Wino, by 2nd April,” said the vernacular gaming platform.
This time, MPL Are named their tournament as ‘Team Clash’, but the notifications/pop-ups sent to users still used ‘World War’, the company alleged.
The matter was heard before Justice Naveen Challah in the Delhi High Court on Friday.
“MPL’s counsel stated that the MPL has stopped using the mark ‘World War’ and was willing to give an undertaking that the mark ‘World War’ shall not be used with the Defendant’s game/offering,” according to Wino.
Concerning the other allegations made by Wino, MPL’s Counsel made a statement that MPL shall attempt to resolve the Wino then sent a legal notice to MPL and when MPL refused to cease and desist from taking down the Format, Wino was forced to file a suit seeking injunction to restrain MPL from continuing to use the format on account of copyright infringement, passing off and unfair competition.
Commencing in April 2020, the game currently has nearly 80 million registered users.
Wino said it has applied for a patent for the invention, copyright registration in relation to the expression of the Format, and trademark for ‘World War’. Matter through negotiations with Wino.
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