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Court Re-Emphasizes the Exclusion of Generic Terms from Registration

This post was first published on March 30, 2012. Recently Madras High Court has delivered a very interesting judgment on trademark infringement and passing off...

Grounds for Refusal of Trademark Registration – Part III

This post was first published on 8th July, 2014. In today’s post, we’ll be talking about Section 9(3), thereby concluding one half of the series,...

Trans-border Reputation of Well Known Marks – Part IV

This post was first published on 7th July, 2014. Spillover reputation of trademarks is a subject matter of endless legal tussles. Indian Courts and Tribunals...

MUCOSOLVIN confusingly similar to MUCOSOLVAN

This post was first published on 5th January, 2014. The Hon’ble Delhi High Court delivered another thought-provoking judgment on the 16th of December, 2013 related to the...

An In-Depth look at the Trademark Registration Process- Part 1

This post was first published on 2nd July, 2014. A trademark is a sign that is used to identify goods and services as those produced...

Comparative Advertising: Pepsodent v. Colgate

This post was first published on August 21, 2013 There is yet another war between Hindustan Unilever Limited (Pepsodent) and Colgate- Palmolive (Colgate), regarding a...

Doctrine of unclean hands- Now a defense in trademark infringement!

This post was first published on March 22, 2011.The Indian Courts, in the recent past have continuously surprised us by pulling one trick after the...

History and Evolution of the Trademark System

First Publication Date: 7th January 2011 History of (trade)marks Dating back to those barbarian times where majority of people could not read or write is...