Curated judicial decisions shaping Indian patent trademark and copyright law. This section analysis landmark and recent judgements with Doctrinal clarity and practical perspective
Supreme Court of India | Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud & B.V. Nagarathna JJ. | 27 September 2021 Civil Appeal Nos. 5985-5990 of 2021 Background Section 31D was inserted into the Copyright Act, 1957 by the Copyright Amendment Act, 2012 (brought into force on 21 June 2012). It creates a statutory licensing regime for broadcasting organisations that […]
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 3 October 2008 IA No. 6872 of 2008 in CS(OS) No. 1073 of 2008 Presiding Judge: Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Background Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited, the plaintiff, held a registered trade mark THEOBID in relation to medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations. The trade mark was originally registered
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 30 March 2016 W.P.(C) No. 464/2014 & W.P.(C) No. 1006/2014 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Vibhu Bakhru Background Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), a company incorporated under the laws of Sweden and one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, filed two writ petitions challenging orders passed by the
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi (Division Bench) | Decided: 9 November 2012 | RFA (OS) No. 90 of 2010 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manmohan Singh Background The Himalaya Drug Company, the appellant, is the owner of the trade mark Liv.52, registered under registration number 180564 in Class
Delhi High Court | Manmohan J. | 1 July 2019 AIRONLINE 2019 DEL 972 | (2019) 262 DLT 734 | CS(COMM) 753/2017 Background MRF Limited (plaintiff), a leading tyre manufacturer operating in approximately sixty-five countries, launched a tyre series called MRF NV Series “REVZ” in June 2015. To promote this product, the plaintiff produced an
High Court of Delhi | 28 February 2014 CS (OS) 3193 of 2012 & CC No. 49 of 2013, IA Nos. 10389-90 of 2013, 10638 of 2013, 20025 of 2013, 18788 of 2013 Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Muralidhar BACKGROUND The plaintiffs in the present matter are Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”), Yeda Research and Development
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Delhi High Court | Mukta Gupta J. | 12 July 2018 Case Numbers: CS(COMM) 24/2016; CS(COMM) 436/2017 Justice Mukta Gupta BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., a Netherlands-incorporated multinational corporation, instituted two suits alleging infringement of its Indian Patent No. 184753 relating to DVD video player technology. The patent, dated 13 February 1995, pertains
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High Court of Madras | Decided: 28 February 1958 C.S. Nos. 54 of 1955 & 215 of 1954 Presiding Judge: Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Background Two suits were tried together before the Madras High Court as they raised common questions of law relating to copyright infringement, though the facts of each were different. In C.S. No.
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Supreme Court of India | Decided: 26 July 2018 Civil Appeal Nos. 2937–2942 & 2943–2944 of 2018 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.K. Sikri & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhushan Citation: AIR 2018 SC 3516 | (2018) 9 SCC 183 Background Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Limited, the respondent, is a cooperative federation of milk producers
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Delhi High Court | Dr. M.K. Sharma J. | 26 May 1999 Case Number: Suit No. 2391/1998 | Citation: AIR 2000 Delhi 23 | 80 (1999) DLT 56 | 1999 IV AD (Delhi) 613 BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Standipack Private Limited, claimed to be the patentee of a pouch designed for storage and dispensing of liquids
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