Trademark Case Study
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,
09/10/2025
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
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”
Indian courts especially the Bombay High Court’s IP Division are telling Examiners and Registrars to show their work. Bare-bones refusals under Section 11 or Section
When a rival’s product looks so close to yours that a shopper could mistake it on a quick scan, courts treat that overall get-up (colour,
The Bombay High Court didn’t rubber-stamp a Section 11(1) refusal just because WR appears inside WR-V. It set aside a cryptic rejection and told the
