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In a Sign of Things to Come, Delhi High Court Passes Summary Judgment in Trademark Infringement Suit


As we’ve noted on this blog before, one concrete manifestation of the Indian Government’s desire to promote the adjudication of commercial disputes by specialized tribunals was the enactment of the Commercial Courts Act (“the Act”) in 2015. Broadly speaking, the Act envisages the resolution of all commercial disputes – a term which includes within its ambit IP disputes – whose commercial value exceeds 1 crore rupees by separately constituted commercial courts or commercial divisions in high courts having original jurisdiction….


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Delhi HC Passes Landmark First Order on Summary Judgement Proceedings Under Order 13A of the CPC


In a succinct and very well written order, Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar of the Delhi High Court delivered the first ever decision to interpret Summary Judgement Proceedings under Order 13A of the Civil Procedure Code (‘CPC’). Passed on the 4th of January, 2016 – this case: Bright Enterprises Private Ltd. & Anr. v. MJ Bizcraft LLP & Anr. (read the order here) was originally instituted to claim a permanent injunction restraining inter alia trademark infringement and dilution…


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