Paytm and Unicommerce rough it out in court, outside

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Allegations and counterclaims flew between online mobile wallet giant Paytm and Snapdeal-owned Unicommerce eSolutions on Friday.

Paytm claimed Unicommerce had wrongfully accessed its seller information. The latter said all interim injunctions sought by Paytm were denied by the high court here.

“Paytm’s plea to restrain Unicommerce from using the word ‘paytm’ was denied. Unicommerce was held free to use the word Paytm in normal font, should it so desire,” said its spokesperson.

Unicommerce added that Paytm’s plea for an injunction against use of its logo wasn’t granted since Unicommerce confirmed in court that it had discontinued use of the Paytm logo since last December.

Unicommerce provides services to sellers on various e-commerce platforms which include Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart. The companies provide similar services to sellers on Paytm’s platform, though the latter warned its sellers  not to use Unicommerce’s solutions, fearing sensitive information would go to Snapdeal.

“It agreed to be bound by its current practice and not use the same in the future as well. An old YouTube video with the logo was cited by Paytm and Unicommerce agreed and has removed the logo from the said old video,” the spokesperson added.

The Vijay Shekhar Sharma-led company on the other hand said the court has instructed Unicommerce to not use the Paytm logo and trademark. “The court has instructed Unicommerce to remain bound to this judgement. Unicommerce accepted that they were using the logo and will not use it anymore,” the company said. And, that the court had further instructed Unicommerce to pull down the YouTube videos where they were using the Paytm logo.

The Unicommerce spokesperson said Paytm’s plea to restrain it from accessing information derived from its sellers was denied. “The court found no reason to change the status quo of Unicommerce accessing the seller data as a representative of the seller and making such data available back to them. Unicommerce clarified in Court that the seller data is accessed with the consent of the sellers in order to help the sellers improve their business and it does not use it for itself,” the company said.

Paytm said Unicommerce had been instructed not to access the customer data and the seller data which was being used to sign up sellers for its competition.

“They have also submitted that they will not derive any information such as sales analysis or user behaviour for any misuse. This is an important point, since this data might have been used unduly by our competition,” Paytm said.