Rulings
HC: Patent licence-agreement registration not mandatory for filing infringement-suit; Quashes Single Judge adjournment-order
HC: Quashes Single Judge order declining jurisdiction; Sec 134 of Trademarks Act doesn’t override CPC
SC: Upholds HC’s interim injunction order; “First in market” decisive for trademark rights
HC: Restrains clandestine attempt to infringe ITC’s “Gold Flake” trademark; Prefix ‘National’ indistinguishable
HC: Glenmark’s ‘hindsight analysis’ of Merck’s diabetes-patent molecule, impermissible; Grants permanent injunction
HC: Reputed real-estate trade-name ‘Lokhandwala’ entitled to protection against imposter with same family name
HC: Trademark ‘ELENTE’/’LNT’ deceptively similar to Larsen & Toubro’s ‘L&T’, grants permanent injunction
HC: Slight dissimilarities in logos immaterial when actual trademark identical; Protects trademark ‘Kalpataru’
HC: Protects 5 decades-old distemper trademark ‘1001’, restrains defendant from using similar ‘6004’
HC: Restrains unauthorised selling of counterfeit products of French brand ‘Loius Vuitton’