The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that Google’s use of trademarks as keywords under its Ads Programme may lead to infringement, making it ineligible for safe harbour status.
This means Google will be legally bound if advertisers use another company’s trademark to improve their search ranking and that affects the trademark owner or confuses consumers. Besides, the ruling could affect Google’s advertising revenue, experts said.
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