Rulings
HC: Cipla infringes F.Hoffmann-La Roche’s cancer-drug patent; Rejects Single Judge’s reliance on “X-ray diffraction” technique
IPAB: Sets-aside Joint Registrar’s order allowing trademark-application amendment without giving new advertisement
HC: DLF’s luxury-mall trademark ‘EMPORIO’ infringed by trademark ‘SOHUMEMPORIO’, grants injunction & punitive damages
IPAB: Mandatory for Registrar to cause search on receipt of trademark application
HC: Quashes Copyright Board’s classification of plaintiff’s ‘artistic work’ as ‘design’;Differentiates copyright & design-protection
HC: Furnishing land-development drawings of approved plan under RTI Act not ‘copyright infringement’
HC: Restrains same name, Press Act registered ‘Devnagari’ publication from infringing ‘Indian Express’ goodwill
SC: Frowns at misuse of ‘Ramayan’ as trademark; Taking advantage of Gods impermissible
HC: Inconsistent brochures nail patent infringement; Speedy patent grant no ground for suspicion
SC: ‘Desi Boys’ common words, not ‘literary work’; Quashes complaint against film-title ‘Desi Boyz’