Trademark

Delhi HC, Considering inter alia Unique Stylized Font, Decreed against ‘YahooKochi’ in TM Infringement Suit

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The Delhi High Court, in a recent TM infringement ex-parte suit (Class 39) concerning ‘YahooKochi’, held in favour of Yahoo Inc. (Plaintiff) and directed the defendants to pay compensation of nearly five lakhs rupees. The Court had earlier granted ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of Yahoo Inc. The judgment is available here. According to the petitioner, “defendants are infringing the plaintiff’s trade mark. In support of his contention, he referred to a print out from defendants’ website- www.yahookochi.com (Ex.PW1/22). He…


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Call for Papers: Journal of Intellectual Property Law (JIPL), Institute of Law, Nirma University; Submit by Oct 31, 2017

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We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat is inviting articles / research papers, case studies and book reviews on the contemporary topics related to intellectual property rights for publication in the 3rd issue (2017-18 volume) of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law. For further details, please read the post below: Call for Papers: Journal of Intellectual Property Law Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat hereby invites articles /…


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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 31- August 7)

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Thematic Highlight: Prashant discussed a recent Delhi HC case involving engineering drawings and their reproduction in 3D form. The defendant got away from the plaintiff’s copyright infringement claim on account of S.15(2) allowing for exemption to design infringement in cases where production crossed 50 units. Prashant argues that the engineering drawings do not constitute “designs” in the first place and therefore, the court misinterpreted S.15(2). Then, he proceeds to further argue that one cannot prevent another from manufacturing the content of…


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When Journalists Lose their Mojo: Barkha Dutt and NDTV Lock Horns Over the Use of ‘MoJo’

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In what can only be described as ‘much ado about nothing’, a series of tweets were exchanged between Barkha Dutt and Nidhi Razdan over NDTV’s purported move towards mobile journalism and the use of the word ‘MoJo’ (abbreviation for ‘Mobile Journalism’) to refer to their ‘new’ form of journalism, which is similar to Barkha Dutt’s online platform ‘TheMojo’. Barkha Dutt’s tweets were triggered by a news report, which talked about the downsizing of staff within NDTV due to financial constraints…


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Dysfunctional Judgments on Functionality and Design Law

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A few months ago, when I wrote on a Delhi High Court judgment in the Carlsberg design infringement case, I received a few comments and emails protesting my claim that Indian design law does not penalize designs which also have a functional aspect. The issue of functionality has been a tricky issue in most jurisdictions because design law is supposed to protect only designs that appeal to the eye while functionality is to be protected under patent law. Life is…


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The CCI’s Identity Crisis and Dealing with Misplaced Criticism

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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) will complete 14 years of its existence this year, having been established in 2003 (although it became fully functional only much later). Like all teenagers, the people around it can’t seem to identify its exact role in the universe. In the case of the CCI, the question is whether the institution is a part of the executive or the judiciary. This issue was raised before the Supreme Court in the case of Brahm Dutt…


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The Delhi High Court Misses Another Opportunity to Rule on the New Section 52(1)(w) in Context of Engineering Drawings

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In a recently delivered judgment, the Delhi High Court was once again faced with a plaintiff seeking an interim injunction restraining a defendant from manufacturing a product on the grounds that it was infringing the plaintiff’s copyright in its engineering drawings. The plaintiff Holland L.P. and its Indian partner, claimed to have invented “automatic twist locks” (ATL), to help secure containers on railcars. The system is used by the Indian Railways which put out a tender for procurement of the…


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Indian Patent Office – Expedited Examination – Does it in Record Time

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  Our patent office had initiated the expedited examination procedure last year under the revised rules 2016.  This program has yielded excellent results and some patents already granted.  One of them has been granted in record time of less than 4 months.  This is remarkable as if I exclude the time taken by the applicant to respond, the patent office took only 19 days. This is less than a month! Great going and three cheers for our patent office! About…


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SpicyIP Tidbit: SC Calls Out “Disturbing Trend” of Settling IPR Issues Through Interim Orders

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As per strict doctrine, interim orders are issued on the basis of a prima facie impression, to prevent “irreparable harm“, by virtue of a party’s actions, during the duration of the proceedings. But in effect, courts haven’t really been solving matters in accordance with settled doctrine, and have largely been sticking to settling matters, almost conclusively, through interim orders. You can find considerable coverage on SpicyIP on the same here. A Supreme Court Bench, comprising of J. Ranjan Gogoi and…


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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 16 – 30)

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 16 – 22) Divij Joshi The first thematic highlight for this week was Harshvardhan’s exploration of the ‘goodness’ of trademarks, in his two–part post. Harshvardhan highlights the cultural role of trademarks and explores how the law treats trademarks not merely as an indicator of goods, but also of ‘goodness’, sometimes by seeking to restrict immoral or pejorative trademarks. Harshvardhan builds the argument that a trademark must be based on something more than distinctiveness, and it must satisfy a…


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