Author name: Anubha Sinha

The Delhi High Court in yet another order granted Reckitt Benckiser an interim injunction against Hindustan Lever Ltd (HUL). This is the second order granted in favour of Reckitt Benckiser against HUL recently (read the first one here). The dispute may be traced back to Reckitt Benckiser’s (plaintiff’s)TV commercial and print campaign which compared the germ killing capabilities of its product Dettol Healthy Kitchen and HUL’s (defendant) Vim Liquid. These advertisements supposedly contained truthful statements about the germ killing capabilities of the

Hindustan Lever Limited(HUL) aired a television commercial which depicted a child being sick because of the alleged use of Dettol as an antiseptic liquid in bathing water whilst promoting the superiority of Hindustan Lever Limited’s Lifebuoy Soap. The plaintiff, Reckitt Benckiser filed a suit for an ad interim injunction against the telecast of the television commercial of defendant Hindustan Lever Limited’s Lifebuoy Soap, which was disparaging and denigrating the reputation and goodwill of the plaintiff’s product Dettol in the commercial