Delhi High Court Restrains Patna Real Estate Firm Over Nintendo Trademark

There is a very famous video game company called Nintendo that makes games like Super Mario and Pokémon.

In the country of India, another company was started with the exact same name, but it was a real estate business, not a video game company.

Nintendo said this was not fair because people might get confused by two companies having the same name.

Nintendo first asked the Indian company to stop using the name with a legal letter, but got no answer.

So Nintendo took the matter to a big court in Delhi.

The judge agreed with Nintendo and said the Indian company's name was too similar and could confuse people.

The judge told the Indian company to stop using the name Nintendo until the court hears the case again.

Even one of the leaders of the Indian company said in an email that they did not want to use the name anymore.

So for now, only the video game Nintendo can use that famous name.

This is a good example of how companies protect their names with something called a trademark.