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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v. Sohail Maklai Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.

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Bombay High Court | Notice of Motion No. 2847 of 2010 | 14 October 2010 | Smt. Roshan Dalvi, J. Background Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, the plaintiff, held copyright in the script and screenplay of its 2002 Hollywood film Phone Booth. The copyright was originally authored by Larry Cohen and assigned to the plaintiff […]

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Zee Telefilms Ltd. & Film and Shot v. Sundial Communications Pvt. Ltd.

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Bombay High Court | A.P. Shah & D.K. Deshmukh JJ. | 27 March 2003 2003(27)PTC457(Bom) Background Sundial Communications Pvt. Ltd. (Plaintiff No. 1)- a television production company, conceptualized a show titled Kanhaiyya (later renamed Krish Kanhaiyya) in early 2002. The concept centered on Bal Krishna appearing in child form in a dysfunctional rich family, helping

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The Role of the Trade Marks Registry – Structure, Functions and Jurisdiction

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Every trademark right in India passes through a single institutional gateway: the Trade Marks Registry. It is the administrative body that receives applications, conducts examination, publishes marks for opposition, grants registration, maintains the official register, and adjudicates a wide range of inter partes proceedings. Without the Registry, the statutory scheme of trademark protection under the

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Deceptive Similarity and the Consumer Confusion Test in Indian Trademark Law

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Few questions in Indian trademark law arise more frequently, or are decided with greater consequence, than whether two competing marks are deceptively similar to each other. The resolution of this question governs whether a trademark application will be accepted or rejected by the Registrar, whether an opposition proceeding will succeed or fail, and whether an

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