Mr. Deepak Kapoor of Manupatra.com, one of India’s leading online legal portals, has been kind enough to, promptly, share with us, his copy of the Hilltone judgment rendered by the Additional District Court, Sirohi District, Rajasthan, along with a translation of the same. We thank him for the same. It is now available on our website over here. Please note this is the judgment against which an appeal has been filed by the Rajasthan High Court and not the order of the Rajasthan High Court itself. We will be carrying an analysis of the judgment soon, however I would like to point out that the Judgement seems to have been rendered under the wrong legislation i.e. it has been rendered under the Trade Marks Act, 1958, which was in fact repealed and replaced by the Trade Marks Act, 1999!!! Having said that I would also like to point out to the fact that the judgment has been rendered in a record time of just 2 years.
SpicyIP Resources: Manupatra shares with us its copy of the Hilltone judgment
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Prashant Reddy
T. Prashant Reddy graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a B.A.LLB (Hons.) degree in 2008. He later graduated with a LLM degree (Law, Science & Technology) from the Stanford Law School in 2013. Prashant has worked with law firms in Delhi and in academia in India and Singapore. He is also co-author of the book Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas (OUP).
I am stumped…can anyone help with the translation of this judgment.
Well ….. you could just scroll down the PDF file for the English translation.
I think you guys should report the recently passed Raymond judgment. It takes 29 (5) to a new level!!