The BYJU’S-owned company had sent the legal notice to Poonia last November
WhiteHat Jr also accused him of trademark infringement, dilution of trademarks and, copyright infringement
Besides Poonia, WhiteHat Jr had also filed a defamation suit against angel investor Aniruddha Malpani
Edtech company WhiteHat Jr has decided to drop the $2.6 Mn defamation suit against critic Pradeep Poonia, according to Poonia. BYJU’S-owned company had sent the legal notice to Poonia, who went by the username WhiteHatSnr on Twitter, last November for “Infringement of Registered and Unregistered Trademarks.”
The case had been filed with respect to allegedly defamatory comments made by Poonia about WhiteHat Jr on social media and in news reports. The notice specified that the defendant (Poonia) started this defamation spree in early September with his comments on WhiteHat Jr’s advertisements concerning a fictitious character “Wolf Gupta”, a teenager who landed a job in Google.
After WhiteHat Jr…