{"id":256192,"date":"2021-10-28T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=256192"},"modified":"2021-10-28T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:24:08","slug":"trademark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/10\/28\/trademark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Mark | &#8220;Mark is to be taken as a whole&#8221;: Bom HC reminds PhonePe while conditionally allowing withdrawal application"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bombay High Court:<\/strong> G.S. Patel, J., granted &#8216;conditional&#8217; liberty to Phonepe (P) Ltd. to withdraw its suit and an interim application filed against the use of mark POSTPE by Resilient Innovations (P) Ltd. However, before granting leave to withdraw, the Court passed a reasoned order and decided not to delete those reasons &#8220;only because an application for withdrawal is being made at this very late stage&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Present application sought the protection of the plaintiff\u2019s mark PHONEPE and competing mark by the defendant was POSTPE.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was stated that the defendant\u2019s mark was used in respect of what was said to be the equivalent of a digital credit card rather than the traditional UPI-based debit card system used by the plaintiff.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was noted that plaintiff attempted to claim some sort of exclusivity or distinctiveness in a part of its mark i.e. \u201cPE\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court disagreed with the Senior Advocate Dr Saraf with his stands that i.e. taking PHONEPE as a whole while simultaneously claiming similarities in the use of PE are not mutually contradictory or not inconsistent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, the Bench elaborated stating that plaintiff has no registration of the word mark PE per se.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plaintiff has a label or device mark with the Devanagari word PE. It claimed that \u2018Phone\u2019 is not unique or distinctive, and that the word PE is distinctive, and is a central, leading and memorable feature. It then claimed that the Defendants\u2019 use of PE is an infringement. But if the law is that the \u2018mark must be taken as a whole\u2019, then one must look at PHONEPE and set it against POSTPE. Then one would test for visual, structural and phonetic similarity. But except for one line in one paragraph, the plaint only draws a comparison between the rival uses of PE, clearly claiming exclusivity over that expression disconnected from the \u2018mark taken as a whole\u2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court added to its analysis, that it is one thing to say that the defendant&#8217;s mark, taken as a whole is too close to the plaintiff\u2019s mark, also taken as a whole. But it is quite another to take an element of each, which cannot possibly be the subject of exclusivity, and then claim injunctions on that basis.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Saraf, Senior Advocate sought leave to withdraw the suit and the IA with liberty to file a fresh suit restricting the claim to the mark PHONEPE taken as a whole.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench granted the liberty conditionally, i.e. not only keeping all contentions open on behalf of the defendants but also giving the defendants liberty to rely on the present plaint and the instant order in opposition to any fresh suit or IA inter alia to contend that the plaintiff has taken different stands at different time and in different courts. [Phonepe Pvt Ltd. v. Resilient Innovations Pvt. 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