GLASS SKIN trademark case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Delhi High Court while allowing a rectification petition filed by Renee Cosmetics (P) Ltd held that the mark “GLASS SKIN” is descriptive of skincare products and directed cancellation of its trade mark registration, finding it hit by Section 9(1)(b), Trade Marks Act, 1999.

Prestige Ocean Pearl trademark dispute
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Delhi High Court held that ‘Ocean Pearl’ remained the dominant feature of the impugned mark ‘Prestige Ocean Pearl’ and granted an ex parte injunction restraining its use in connection with a luxury real estate project. The parties have also been referred to mediation.

MakeMyTrip Trademark infringement
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Delhi High Court restrained the use of “MakeMyIndiaTrip”, holding that the addition of the word “India” did not sufficiently distinguish the mark from “MakeMyTrip”.

The Pioneer trademark infringement
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The publication of the newspaper is a coordinated and layered process involving editing, designing, visual creation and compilation.

well known trademarks
Legislation UpdatesNotifications

CGPDTM has published 13 new well known trademarks in accordance with their statutory publication under Rule 124(5) of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017.

overlap between copyright and trademark
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Delhi High Court noted that the TIGER logo of Heineken Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd had been copied in totality and hence, the registration of the impugned artistic work could not be permitted to continue in the Register of Copyrights

Intellectual Property Rights August 2025
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Covering all the important IPR cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.

NDTV in trade mark
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Delhi High Court directed the Department of Telecommunications and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to issue a notification calling upon the various internet service providers and telecom service providers, registered under it to block access to the various websites identified by NDTV in the present suit or such other websites that may subsequently be notified by them.

Yatra is generic
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The Plaintiff’s registered marks are Device Marks and not Word Marks. Hence, no infringement can be brought merely because of the use of the word ‘YATRA’ by the Defendant as ‘YATRA’ is a generic and a descriptive word.”

Hero Motocorp Trade mark infringement suit
Case BriefsHigh Courts

A prima facie case has been made out by Hero Motocorp for grant of an ex-parte ad-interim injunction. The balance of convenience is also in favour of Hero Motocorp and against the defendants.

Intellectual Property Rights July 2025
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Covering all the important IPR cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The plaintiff Rahul Mishra is a leading Indian Fashion designer based out of Delhi and is engaged in creating exquisitely and luxuriously designed and handcrafted fashion clothes/ apparels under his own fashion label ‘RAHUL MISHRA’.

2024 IPR cases
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Discover the year’s most impactful IPR cases, including landmark decisions on copyright infringements, trademark conflicts, patent disputes, and more, shaping the future of intellectual property law.

High Court Weekly Roundup
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A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.

High Court Weekly Roundup
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A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.

Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court is “prima facie convinced that the name of the movie in question would not infringe the trademark rights of the goods and services.”

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court restrained Southern Infosys Limited from using the mark ‘INFOSYS’ as part of their corporate/trade name or in any other manner amounting to infringement of the Plaintiff’s trademarks.

Trump too small trademark SCOTUS
Case BriefsForeign Courts

In 2016, after watching a Presidential primary debate exchange between then-candidate Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio, the respondent sought to federally register the trademark “Trump too small” to use on shirts and hats.

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Termination of Franchise Agreement will revoke respondent authorization to operate the franchise outlet, as well as obligating the respondent to cease the use of petitioner’s trademark.

Lifestyle v. Amazon Cross-Border Marketing Dispute UK Supreme Court
Case BriefsForeign Courts

The dispute concerning Amazon’s use of its USA based website relates entirely to events that occurred before the UK left the European Union (Brexit) when UK trademark law at that time was substantially governed by EU legislation and case law.