In this case a petition was filed under Section 50 of the Copyright Act, 1957 for expunction of a registered copyright mark on the grounds of lack of originality and deceptively similar to the mark of the Petitioner. Standard of comparison in copyright law are quite different from those in trade mark law. In trade …
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In this case an original rectification application was filed by the Applicant for rectification of the register and to cancel the trade mark of the Respondent was challenged by the Respondent on the ground of the Section 124 of the Trade Mark Act, 1999. The Respondent contended that an application for rectification of register without …
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The High Court of Mumbai on August 23, passed an ex parte ad interim injunction in favour of Godrej Consumer Products which dragged the look-alike product manufacturer to court. The ad-interim order restrains Gandhi Soaps and Detergent Industries and their representatives from manufacturing and selling their products using the trademark Gandhi No.1. Fully story: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Copyright-Its-Godrej-No-1-vs-Gandhi-No-1/articleshow/6509077.cms#ixzz10c06K1Ga …
In this case, an application for registration of a short combination of phrase “Sampurna Suraksha Ki Guarantee” was rejected by the Registrar on the grounds that short words/phrases cannot claim originality and it cannot be included in the literary work (under section 13 of the Copyright Act, 1957). The Hon’ble Court observed that facts of …
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