High Court of Delhi | 31 January 2026 Case Number: FAO-IPD 37/2021 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia Citation: Citation to be verified BACKGROUND The present appeal was filed by the appellant, Amit Bansal, under Order XLIII Rule 1 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“CPC”), challenging the order dated
High Court of Delhi | 22 June 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 346/2026, I.A. 9898/2026, I.A. 9911/2026 & I.A. 10797/2026 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Devans Modern Breweries Limited, claims to have been founded in 1961 by industrialist Shri Dewan Gian Chand and to be one of the leading manufacturers of
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High Court of Delhi | 17 January 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 84/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Alkem Laboratories Limited, was established in 1973 and is engaged in research and development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products in India and in international markets, with a presence in
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High Court of Judicature at Bombay | Commercial Appellate Division | 9 March 2026 Case Number: Commercial Appeal (L) No. 13430 of 2025 in Commercial Miscellaneous Petition No. 110 of 2025 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Bharati Dangre and Hon’ble Ms. Justice Manjusha Deshpande, JJ. Citation: 2026:BHC-OS:7027-DB BACKGROUND The appellants, Vishal Prafulsingh Solanke and another, filed
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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
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).
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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The protection of luxury brands presents trademark law with some of its most commercially significant and doctrinally demanding challenges. Luxury goods defined not merely by their price point but by the combination of heritage, craftsmanship, exclusivity, and aspirational identity that constitutes their essential commercial character depend on their trademarks in a manner qualitatively different from
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The commercial internet has created a new kind of marketplace one that is frictionless, borderless, available at every hour and dominated by algorithms that decide what you see before you have even articulated what you are looking for. In this environment, a brand’s trademark performs more work than it ever did in a physical market.
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