Gold Flake vs Gold Stag : Registration Is No Shield
In Pravin Kumar v. ITC Limited, the Calcutta High Court examined whether a Gold Flake trademark infringement claim survives against a registered trademark’s users. The Division Bench weighed…
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Frozen Assets: Delhi High Court’s Bank Lien Twist in the SKF Trademark Infringement Case
AB SKF has secured an ex parte injunction from the Delhi High Court against sellers of counterfeit ball bearings, in a SKF trademark infringement case that adds a…
Pharmaceutical Combination Patent: Delhi HC Remands Cancer Therapy Patent Case
Array Biopharma Inc. challenged the Deputy Controller of Patents' refusal of its pharmaceutical combination patent for a cancer therapy before the Delhi High Court. Did the Controller's reasoning…
Comparative Advertising Disparagement: Beco v. Surf Excel and Vim
Hindustan Unilever Limited has won an interim injunction against Kwick Living’s Beco brand before the Delhi High Court, in a comparative advertising disparagement fight over Surf Excel and…
Stitching Pattern Trademarks: Levi’s Has KILLER and INTEGRITI in Knots, LAWMAN Slips Through
Where two arcs meet on a jeans pocket became central to this trademark dispute. Reading the permitted and prohibited designs in a settlement agreement together, the Delhi High…
Smoking Tobacco, Foiling Obviousness
Philip Morris’s patent concerned a tobacco article meant to be heated electrically, with a wrapper designed to make it harder to ignite with a flame. ITC argued that…
Trademarks and Company Names in the DNA Forensics Dispute
Can a company resist a name-change direction because another company’s complaint set the process in motion? In this dispute between two DNA testing companies, the Delhi High Court…
Empty Jars, Full Infringement: Delhi High Court Rules on Nutella Jar Trademark Infringement
Ferrero S.P.A. took on jar manufacturers before the Delhi High Court over a Nutella jar trademark infringement dispute involving lookalike glass jars sold industry-wide as “Nutella jars.” The…
A Brush with NEEM: Jyothy Gets Interim Trademark Protection Against Dabur
Dabur’s NEEM toothpaste met a legal brush with Jyothy’s registered marks. The Bombay High Court found a prima facie case of infringement and passing off concerning Dabur’s prominent…
Who Moved My Copyright? The Author, the Publisher and the Missing Assignment Deed
In the case of Pares Chandra Das & Anr. v. New Central Book Agency Private Limited & Ors., the author wrote the books, licensed their publication, stated that…