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Bombay High Court:<\/b> In a case of alleged infringement of a trademark, a bench comprising of  SJ Kathawala, J granted an interim injunction restraining a firm from marketing an edible oil brand on the grounds that the name was similar to an established product. The court said that merely adding a suffix to a popular name can’t be the basis of a new trademark. In the present case, the plaintiff had acquired registration of the trademark \u2018RISO\u2019 in 2012. The plaintiff alleged that the impugned trademark \u2018RISO-LITE\u2019 of the defendant was deceptively similar to its mark \u2018RISO\u2019. The Counsel for the defendant argued  that \u2018RISO\u2019 was an Italian name for rice and hence it was descriptive in nature and can be freely used by anyone. The Court however rejected this contention stating though it is true that certain words are often borrowed from a foreign language and commonly used in India but \u2018RISO\u2019 is not one such word which is commonly used in India, and cannot be held as descriptive in the Indian context. The defendant further contended that the plaintiff had not honestly adopted and conceived the said trademark \u2018RISO\u2019 since there were other marks, already using the word \u2018RISO\u2019, existing in the market, namely \u201cRISONA\u201d and \u201cRISOLA\u201d. However, the court held that the defendant in the present case has not been able to show that the prior marks \u2018RISONA\u2019 or \u2018RISOLA\u2019 have actually been used or that they have a reputation or market of their own and thereby granted interim injunction in favour of the plaintiff. Kamani Oil Industries Pvt. Ltd vs. Bhuwaneshwar Refineries Pvt. Ltd., Notice of Motion No. 139 of 2014<\/span><\/i>, decided on May 9, 2014<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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