Competitor published article with fake information about us
We're a design and development agency established as an LLP for a few years. It has just been brought to our attention that one of our competitors published an article a few years ago, which is basically a comparison between them and us (the title of the article being "Our company name VS their company name").
In this article, they clearly share wrong information about our services, saying we don't cover certain areas whereas we definitely do and this is clearly stated on our website. They clearly added some wrong information about our services, in order to drive people who might research about our company to their own website (using our name in the title of their article), spread fake information about us, and drive people to use their service instead of ours.
They are a pretty big competitor, so we can easily assume their website ranks well and drive a considerable amount of traffic. If you research for our company name on Google, then this article comes up on the first page of research... So whoever researched about our companies over the past years, necessarily have seen this article and read fake information about us, which we can easily assume impacted us negatively.
There is no way this is just an error. They are stating wrong information that are clearly stated on our website (which didn't change for the past year, it has always been the same). O. They used some screenshot of our website in their article, so they definitely checked our website to write their article. Still they added a lot of wrong information.
Those fake information has definitely be harming our reputation, and potentially prevented a considerable amount of potential clients to use our services, to use competitor's services instead.
Even if we take a very low estimation, I think we can easily estimate the loss to potentially $100K over the past 2 years, at very minimum.
Both companies are registered in India. Do we have a case, is there something we can do to claim for a compensation for spreading fake information about our scope of work in their article, which we can quite surely assume prevented us to acquire a considerable amount of client.
Do we have a case? Can we claim a compensation for such a situation?
Asked 3 months ago in Business Law
Thanks for all the answers. I believe it might be worth a shot to file a civil suit and claim compensation. Looking for a lawyer to discuss more precisely all elements, and to handle the entire process. If you're interested, please reach out to [deleted] for us to schedule an initial call.
Asked 3 months ago
Email address not going through. Who has expertize on this topic and would be interested to discuss further to potentially handle the case, if we decide to take it further?
Asked 3 months ago