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Delhi High Court:<\/strong> The Single Bench of Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, J. has opined that a direction to \u00a0issue a public apology would be a more appropriate relief than monetary damages in defamation\u00a0cases, especially when defamation was caused by a media report, since monetary compensation\u00a0could never restore the reputation damaged by a libelous news report.<\/p>\n

In 1997, the Outlook<\/em> magazine had published an article titled \u201cSpot the Fake One,\u201d along with a\u00a0photograph with the caption \u201cLawyer Parveen Anand displays Seized Fakes,\u201d where Mr. Anand\u00a0was shown standing next to some alleged fake goods, including a carton bearing the trademark\u00a0\u2018TOSIBA\u2019. The plaintiff, a manufacturer of domestic appliances under the mark \u2018TOSIBA\u2019 was\u00a0involved in some trademark disputes with Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, wherein the latter was\u00a0being represented by Mr. Anand. The plaintiff, thus, contended that Mr. Anand while acting on\u00a0behalf of Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba had caused substantial loss to their reputation through the\u00a0aforesaid photograph.<\/p>\n

The High Court observed that the article was general in nature, relating to the subject of\u00a0counterfeiting of well-known brands, and was not relatable to the plaintiff. Moreover, the\u00a0plaintiff had itself pleaded that its goods were genuine and had never been seized, and therefore\u00a0the depiction of the mark \u2018TOSIBA\u2019 in the photograph could not be a reference to the plaintiff as\u00a0it was in relation to fakes goods of genuine articles. Hence, the plaint was rejected as not\u00a0disclosing any cause of action. The Court, however, directed the Outlook<\/em> magazine to publish a\u00a0clarification that the plaintiff and Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba were involved in trademark disputes and the aforesaid article was not to be read as imputing that the goods of the plaintiff were\u00a0counterfeit goods of Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba. [Tosiba Appliances Co. Pvt. Ltd. v. Kabushiki\u00a0Kaisha Toshiba, 2017 SCC OnLine Del 8104<\/a>, decided on 01.05.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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