CHENNAI: Iconic Chennai saree retailer Nalli Chinnasami Chetty has initiated legal action against leading e-commerce giant SnapDeal.com for "dishonestly" using their trademark and brand on their site.
The statement from Nalli, that came out today, stated that they had issued a Cease & Desist Notice on Snapdeal.com on 11th June 2015 through their lawyers. "It demanded that Snapdeal immediately cease & desist using their trademark NALLI as their search criteria or in any other manner and to remove all photographic images of NALLI products from their website," said the statement.
The statement went on to point out several instances where SnapDeal had misused their trademark. "Nalli Chinnasami Chetty are the registered owners of the trademark “Nalli” in Class 24,25 and various other goods falling within the ambit of classes 14, 9 and services under classes 35,36,37 41 & 42.
On Friday 11th June 2015 we noticed while undertaking a Google search for “nalli.com” that Snapdeal, has misused their registered trademark “NALLI” as well as copied the photographic images from Nalli’s website," it said.
The weblinks which misused the brand name, included in the statement, led to Snapdeal’s clothing segment, said Nalli.
"More specifically, it leads to the online sale of silk sarees where Nalli products and images from our website nalli.com have been dishonestly used.
"It is a deliberate attempt by Snapdeal to deceive the public to unjustly enrich itself to make the public assume that the original “NALLI” silk sarees are available on their website," said Nalli adding that the online sale of NALLI products are done exclusively through their website “nalli.com” and nowhere else.
IRVINE: Satellite data show people are overdrawing water from some of the world's largest groundwater basins.
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine say it's unclear how much water is left in the most overburdened aquifers. The problem is expected to worsen with climate change and population growth.
Using measurements taken by NASA's twin Grace satellites, scientists found the most overstressed groundwater basins were located in the driest regions.
Arabian Aquifer System in the Middle East, which serves more than 60 million people, was considered the most stressed in the world followed by the Indus Basin aquifer of northwestern India and Pakistan.
The farm-rich Central Valley in California was considered highly stressed.
The two studies were published online Tuesday in Water Resources Research, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
