High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Nagpur Bench | Decided: 1 September 2026 Appeal Against Order No. 42 of 2026 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Y.G. Khobragade Citation: 2026:BHC-NAG:11473 Background The appellants are Tervinder Singh Jhans, M/s Barbecue a proprietary concern through its proprietor Tervinder Singh Jhans and Barbecue Food Services Pvt. Ltd., all having their
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Trademark coexistence agreements occupy a sophisticated and commercially consequential space within Indian intellectual property practice one that sits at the junction of trademark law, contract law and competition law, yet is addressed by no single statute with dedicated clarity. In a trademark register that now carries over two and a half million active marks, with
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 28 July 2026 LPA 316/2026 & CM APPL. 27819-20/2026 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice V. Kameswar Rao & Hon’ble Ms. Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora Background In Parle Products Pvt. Ltd. v. The Registrar of Trade Marks,The appellant, Parle Products Pvt. Ltd., is a well-known company engaged
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Trademark infringement in India is conventionally understood through the lens of civil litigation injunctions, damages, accounts of profits and delivery up of infringing goods. These civil remedies are well-developed, extensively litigated and occupy the centre of trademark enforcement practice. However, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 contains a parallel and considerably less-discussed enforcement architecture that is
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Division Bench | Decided: 4 May 2026 LPA Nos. 176, 177 & 178 of 2023 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Om Prakash Shukla Background Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, a multinational automobile manufacturer of undisputed global standing incorporated under the laws of Japan
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Supreme Court of India | B.N. Kirpal, Doraswamy Raju & Brij Kumar JJ. | 26 March 2001 AIR 2001 SC 1952 | 2001 (5) SCC 73 | Civil Appeal No. 2372 of 2001 Background Both the appellant Cadila Healthcare Limited and the respondent Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited were successor companies that had acquired the assets and
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Single Judge | Date of Decision: 6th July, 2026 Case Number: C.A.(COMM.IPD-TM) 52/2024, I.A. 33885/2024 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Jyoti Singh BACKGROUND The Appellant, Industria De Diseno Textil, S.A. (“Inditex”), a company incorporated under the laws of Spain in 1963 and a conglomerate of over 400 companies, is
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Single Judge | Date of Decision: January 9, 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 361/2018, with IA Nos. 49679/2024, 34537/2024 and 32689/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND The Suit was originally filed in the name of Plaintiff No. 2, acting as Court Receiver of Plaintiff No. 1 (M/s
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 30 April 2026 C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) No. 14 of 2022 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia Background Blackberry Limited, a corporation organised and existing under the laws of Ontario, Canada, specialising in telecommunication solutions including enterprise software and Internet of Things, filed Patent Application No. 1976/DEL/2008 on 20
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The right of publicity is the legal right of an individual to control the commercial use of their identity their name, image, likeness, voice, signature and other recognizable attributes of their persona. It is a right that sits at the intersection of intellectual property law, personality rights and the law of torts and its significance