PhonePe withdraws petition against BharatPe’s Postpe, to file fresh suit

Fintech major PhonePe has withdrawn its petition against BharatPe’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Postpe platform which had alleged violation of PhonePe’s trademark and said it will file a fresh suit.

PhonePe had approached the Bombay High Court seeking an injunction to restrain Resilient Innovations, which operates BharatPe, from misusing PhonePe’s registered trademarks by using and promoting the marks ‘PostPe’/’postpe’, PhonePe said in a statement on late Friday night.

During the hearing, the Court observed that the mark PostPe adopted by Resilient Innovations is so phonetically, structurally and visually similar to PhonePe mark that it also thought that PostPe/postpe is a natural evolution of the word PhonePe and emanated from PhonePe, the statement added.