Category: Updates from Courts and Registry

Recently, in a trademark infringement case, the Delhi High Court while holding Gwalior Distilleries Private Ltd.’s ‘Royal Champ’ whiskey to be deceptively similar to Seagram’s ‘Royal Stag’, has permanently restrained, on Gwalior Distilleries Private Ltd from making and selling ‘Royal Champ’ whiskey
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Recently, the Delhi High Court in an appeal before it, upheld the decision of the lower court opining existence of a prima facie case of infringement on the basis of the word CENTURY being prominent in the rival marks SHIVAM CENTURY and
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In a suit filed by Pepsico Inc. & Anr. (“Plaintiffs”), the Delhi High Court restrained the Defendant from using a logo deceptively similar to that of Plaintiffs’ Sun Banner Device. It was the case of the Plaintiffs that they are the registered proprietor of
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Recently, the Delhi High Court granted an ex-parte ad interim injunction in favour of Bombinate Technologies Pvt. Ltd. against the unauthorized use of its KOO and bird device marks. The Plaintiff owns the mobile applications, Vokal India, and Koo India, which are
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Recently, the Delhi High Court granted an ad-interim injunction in favour of Akash Aggarwal (“Plaintiff”) restraining Flipkart (“Defendant”) from allowing third parties to ‘latch on’ to the Plaintiff’s trade name/mark “V-Tradition”, on its e-commerce platform. The Plaintiff is engaged in the sale
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A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court recently put quietus to one of the more hotly contested design infringement cases of the past few years as it dismissed the appeal filed by Kamdhenu Ltd. (“Kamdhenu”) against an order of the Single
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Recently, Fashnear Technologies Private Limited, the owner of the online platform “Meesho”, filed a suit seeking permanent injunction against rouge websites for unauthorizedly using the Plaintiff’s trade marks and/or copyright to defraud and dupe general public in the name of the Plaintiff.
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Recently, the Delhi High Court decreed the suit in the favour of Mondelez India Foods Private Limited, Formerly Cadbury India Ltd. (“Plaintiff”).  The Delhi High Court, in its decision, has permanently restrained Neeraj Food Products (“Defendant”) from using the mark ‘James’ or
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Recently, Disruptive Health Private Limited (“Appellant”) filed an appeal before the IP Division of the Delhi High Court against an order passed by the Registrar of Trade Marks refusing its application for the mark HEALTHSKOOL, in Class 10, filed on ‘proposed to
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