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"3. It has come to Adobe's attention that a third- party domain owner sits in possession of addobe.com and adobee.com.
4. Forensic investigation has revealed that these domains have been configured with the brands of Adobe products, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Spark.
5. In particular, forensic investigation has discovered that addobe.com has been configured with over 400 subdomains which match many used by adobe.com. A subdomain is a configuration that prepends a name to the front of a domain. As an example, addobe.com has been configured with photoshop.addobe.com according to the domain history provided to Adobe by respected threat intelligence providers that monitor for these types of potentially infringing behaviors.

18. This Court is also convinced that the availing of a catch-all configuration being hosted on WWW.ABOVE.COM, is conduct which is meant to cause harm to the Plaintiff. Defendant No.1 is also stated to be using the subdomains 'photoshop.addobe.com' and 'spark.adobee.com', whereas 'SPARK' and 'PHOTOSHOP' are both products of the Plaintiff.

19. Under such circumstances, the Plaintiff has made out a prima facie case in its favour for grant of ex-parte injunction. Defendant Nos.2 to 10 are internet service providers (hereinafter "ISPs"). The Registrar of the Infringing Domains is M/s. SEA WASP LLC/Defendant No.12, which is also a company whose home page has been blocked by the DoT under the Information Technology Act, 2000. The illegality committed by Defendant No.1 is, thus, evident upon a perusal of the averments in the plaint and the documents.

20. Accordingly, the following directions are issued:

(1) Defendant No.1 and anyone else acting on his behalf, is restrained from using the Infringing Domains being www.addobe.com and www.adobee.com and further from registering any domain name, which incorporates the Plaintiff's trademark 'ADOBE' or 'PHOTOSHOP' or 'SPARK' or any other variants thereof. (2) Defendant No.1 shall be served on the email address [email protected]. The declared address of Defendant No.1 is 1415, Mahatma Gandhi Road, MHADA, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400066, which is stated to be a false address as there is a mismatch between the address and pincode. Accordingly, directions are also issued to the Cyber Cell, Mumbai Police to conduct an investigation and place on record a status report as to the following: