ASSOCIATED BROADCASTING COMPANY LIMITED vs GOOGLE LLC & ORS.

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 28/02/2026 CS(COMM) 9/2024 & I.A. 260/2024 ASSOCIATED BROADCASTING COMPANY LIMITED .....Plaintiff versus GOOGLE LLC & ORS. .....Defendants Advocates who appeared in this case For the Plaintiff : Mr. Harsh Kaushik, Mr. Shwetank Tripathi, Mr. Deepank Singhal, Ms. Devangini & Mr. Harsh Prakash, Advocates. For the Defendants : Ms. Aishwarya Kane, Advocate for Defendant No. 1. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA JUDGMENT TEJAS KARIA, J I.A. 21020/2025 FACTUAL BACKGROUND: 1. The Plaintiff has instituted the present Suit seeking, inter alia, injunction against Defendant Nos. 2 to 5 restraining them from issuing any groundless threat of copyright infringement and declaration that the acts of CS(COMM) 9/2024 5. 2. In the present Suit, Defendants Nos. 2 to 5 have not filed a written statement and / or affidavit of admission or denial of documents filed by the Plaintiff. In this background, the Plaintiff has filed the present Application under Order XIIIA of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“CPC”) as amended by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, (“CC Act”) read with Rule 27 of the Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Righ