South Africa: Telkom Threatens Hellkom With R5m Suit

11 August 2004

Cape Town — Telkom has instituted what could be the largest claim against trademark infringement in SA Internet history, for R5 million, against the owners of the parody web sites Hellkom.co.za and Telkomsucks.0catch.com.

Letters were sent to the owners and administrators of the offending sites yesterday demanding that they refrain from making unauthorised use of Telkom's trademark and using disparaging logos.

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