$~19 * IN THEHIGH COURTOF DELHIAT NEW DELHI + CS(COMM) 163/2023 SPORTA TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD AND ANR.

.....Plaintiffs Through: Mr. Rohan Seth and Ms.

VanshikaSingh, Advs.

versus KONSTANTIN KROSNAV & ORS. .....Defendants Through: None Mr. Rohan Jaitley, CGSC with Mr Dev Pratap Shahi, Mr. Varun Pratap Singh and Mr. Yogya Bhatia, Advs.

for D-3 CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA

O R D E R

% 10.12.2025

1. The present suit has been filed seeking permanent injunction restraining infringement of registered trademarks, passing off, infringement, rendition of accounts, damages and other ancillary reliefs.

Case set up in the plaint

2. The Plaintiff was incorporated in 2007 with a view to serve as one-stop provider of a number of online fantasy sport leagues. It launched its fantasy sports platform under the trademark DREAM11 in 2012.

3. The Plaintiff, since August 2025, has ceased to offer the „pay-to-play‟ contests and is currently only offering „free-to-play‟ online social games for recreational and entertainment purposes, wherein users can enter contests for free.

4. The Plaintiff had,on the date of institution of the suit,official partner rights of the Board of Control for Cricket in India [BCCI], international and domestic matches since 2019.

5. The Plaintiff uses the trademarks DREAM11/ /

/ and [„Plaintiff‟s

DREAM11 trademarks‟] in relation to its business.

5.1. Plaintiff‟s earliest registration is for device mark

bearing TM no. 1823015 in class 41, which application was dated 28.05.2009 and filed on a proposed-to-be-used basis.

5.2. The Plaintiff also has registration for the word mark DREAM11 bearing TM no.4863621 in classes 9, 16, 18, 28, 35, 38, 42, and 45, which application is dated 25.09.2019, with user claim since 21.06.2007.1

6. The Plaintiff is the registrant of the domain www.dream11.com. [„Plaintiff‟s website‟], through which it hosts an active website wherein it provides information about its DREAM11 platform, and also permits users to download the mobile application „DREAM11‟ on their devices.

6.1. The said website has a unique layout and User Interface [„UI‟], which is proprietary to and solely associated with the Plaintiff. The uniqueness of the UI vests in the manner of representation of information, ease of use of the website‟s features and extent of information and data provided on the website to utilize the Plaintiff‟s services.The Plaintiff owns the copyright with respect to the artistic work, which includes the overall representation, look-and-feel, and representation of information and graphics on its aforesaid website.

1Details of Plaintiff‟s various DREAM11 trademark registrations have been set out in paragraph „8‟ of the

plaint.

Defendants’ Infringement

7. Defendant No.1/Konstantin Krasnov had registered the domain „dream11.apk.in‟ [„impugned domain‟], and was hosting a website www.dream11apk.in [„impugned website‟], which was a replica of the Plaintiff‟s website.

8. On the impugned website, Defendant No.1 was also portraying that the Plaintiff‟s DREAM11 platform is associated with betting services.

9. While Defendant No.1 claimed to provide hyperlinks to download Plaintiff‟s „DREAM11‟ mobile application on the impugned website, the hyperlinks actually redirected the user to an online gambling and betting platform, „1X Bet‟.

10. Defendant No.2/NETIM SARL was the Domain Name Registrant [„DNR‟], through which the impugned domain was registered.

11. It is a matter of record that inspite of the injunction order dated 22.03.2023, the impugned domain, i.e.,„dream11.apk.in‟, was released by Defendant No. 2 and was registered in the name of Defendant No. 5/Mikhail Petrov through the DNR, i.e., Defendant No.6/Epik Inc.

Suit Proceedings

12. It is a matter of record that the predecessor bench of this Court vide order dated 22.03.2023 had granted an ex-parte ad interim injunction against Defendant No.1 [initially John Doe] and directed Defendant No.2/DNR to suspend the impugned domain „dream11.apk.in.The Plaintiff filed its amen