High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 9 December 2016 RFA (OS) 81/2016 Bench: Division Bench Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Yogesh Khanna Background The appellants (plaintiffs before the learned Single Judge) were five academic publishers: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press (UK), Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.,
High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Commercial Division) | Decided: 27 February 2026 Commercial Miscellaneous Petition No. 72 of 2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arif S. Doctor Citation: 2026:BHC-OS:5637 Background AIC246 AG & Co. KG, the petitioner, is a company that filed Patent Application No. 201627001750 on 21 March 2016 for an invention titled “Combinations
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High Court of Judicature at Madras | Decided: 10 September 2012 O.S.A. Nos. 406 and 407 of 2010 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice P. Jyothimani & Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. Duraiswamy (Division Bench) Citation: 2013 (53) PTC 1 (Mad) | 2012 SCC OnLine Mad 4582 Background Consim Info Pvt. Ltd., the appellant in both appeals, is
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Every time a consumer types a brand name into a search engine, they are doing something instinctive and commercially significant: they are expressing brand preference. The search query “Hindware sanitaryware” or “MakeMyTrip flights” or “Agarwal Packers and Movers” is not a neutral information request it is a declaration of where the consumer intends to spend
The enforcement of intellectual property rights has never been straightforward in any jurisdiction, but the particular challenge of acting against infringers who cannot be identified, located, or who are likely to destroy evidence or dissipate assets before a court can reach them has demanded a category of remedies that go well beyond the conventional interim
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The story of Standard Essential Patents in India is, at its core, a story about two competing ideas: the right of an inventor to profit from a technology that the entire world has come to depend on and the right of every device manufacturer, service provider and ultimately every consumer to access that technology on
High Court of Delhi at New Delhi (Division Bench) | Decided: 10 August 2023 | FAO(OS)(COMM) 2/2022 & FAO(OS)(COMM) 22/2022 | Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Vibhu Bakhru & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Amit Mahajan Background Google LLC, the appellant in FAO(OS)(COMM) 2/2022, owns and operates the Google Search Engine and the Google Ads Programme (formerly AdWords).
India’s integration into global trade and manufacturing supply chains has brought with it a sharp increase in the cross-border movement of goods including goods that infringe intellectual property rights. While the narrative around IP enforcement at the border has historically centred on trademarks and copyrights, the enforcement of patent rights at Indian ports of entry
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Trademark law, in its conventional form, operates on a straightforward premise: a single proprietor owns a mark and uses it to distinguish their goods or services from those of others. The legal rights that follow from registration are personal, exclusive and commercially exploitable by that proprietor alone. Yet commerce is not always organised on this
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Decided: 10 September 2014 FAO(OS) 281/2014 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog & Hon’ble Ms. Justice Mukta Gupta Background Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, Chicago and is engaged in the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products in India. The trademark ‘ANAFORTAN’ had originally been used by Khandelwal Laboratories
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