India processed over 490,000 trademark applications in FY 2024–25 yet a significant proportion of brand owners make the same foundational mistake at the filing stage.
28/02/2026
India processed over 490,000 trademark applications in FY 2024–25 yet a significant proportion of brand owners make the same foundational mistake at the filing stage.
India’s digital economy has crossed a threshold. With over 900 million internet users, 500 million active social media accounts, more than 350 million e-commerce consumers,
An ad-interim injunction is a start, not a finish. To turn a Day-1 win into a decree, treat the order like a project: lock undertakings,
Bombay High Court (IPD) stopped a Mumbai restaurant from trading as “Social Tribe” because it wholly adopted the registered mark SOCIAL, offered identical services in
The Bombay High Court didn’t stop at an injunction against “PRINCE PLATINUM.” Seeing blatant piracy and market harm, it also appointed a Court Receiver to
Losing an interim injunction at first instance isn’t the end. If you can show serious triable issues and target the trial court’s errors of principle,
A Section 11(1) objection isn’t a dead end. If you can show market separation, distinct channels, consumer sophistication, and – critically peaceful co-existence (in India
The Bombay High Court restrained a rival from using “Tikha Lal” for chilli powder and imposed ₹2 lakh in costs after finding (i) the label
The Bombay High Court told the Trade Marks Registry to stop dissecting a composite/device mark into bits, and to judge it as a whole. In
Peaceful global co-existence and long, well-documented foreign use can unlock two powerful levers when Examiners raise Section 11 objections: (1) ask for “advertisement before acceptance”
