Zoho Canada Corporation c. Cloud Lion inc., 2025 QCCS 3522
2025-10-01
Read full decision. Summary prepared by Alan Macek:
WHEREAS, in fact, there would clearly be a risk of confusion and unfair competition if Cloud Lion were allowed to persist in using the name "Zohodoo", which Mr Vanegas himself describes as a "marketing hook"; that the risk of confusion is clear, as an uninformed customer might wonder about the meaning to be given to a name which consists of nothing more or less than the addition of a competitor's name to that of Zoho; that this is all that is needed to establish the existence of serious harm ... in view of the criterion of urgency, it must be concluded that Zoho satisfies it, having acted diligently since the discovery of the name “Zohodoo”, the latter being moreover currently in use as a marketing tool, in particular at a trade fair held recently in Brussels ... For these reasons, the court ... grants in part, the request for an interim injunction (based on a translation)