In a recent judgment, the Delhi High Court has significantly observed that trade marks comprising solely of numbers and number combinations can be considered inherently distinctive and do not necessarily need to acquire secondary meaning through use to be considered eligible for registration. The judgment emanates out of an appeal against a refusal order passed...
Recently, the High Court of Delhi refused to temporarily restrain the bike-taxi services’ company, Uber India, from broadcasting a video advertisement titled ‘Baddies in Bengaluru ft. Travis Head’ that allegedly infringed/disparaged Royal Challengers’ trade mark ‘ROYAL CHALLENGERS BENGALURU’ by showing the “deprecatory” variant of the mark as ‘ROYALLY CHALLENGED BENGALURU’ (and incorrectly portraying the common...
The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court recently declined to grant interim relief to Young Achievers (“Appellant”) in an appeal challenging the judgment passed by the Ld. Single Judge in IMS Learning Resources Private Limited vs. Young Achievers [CS(COMM) 602/2018] (“Impugned Judgment”). In the Impugned Judgment, the Ld. Single Judge had restrained the Appellant...
In a recent order dated April 23, 2025, the Delhi High Court granted ex-parte ad-interim injunction to Wipro Enterprises Private Limited (“Wipro”) in a trademark infringement suit against Global Care Industries, restraining the later from using the mark ‘MACKLEAN’, which was found to be deceptively similar to Wipro’s registered and prior mark ‘MAXKLEEN’. Wipro, a...
Recently, the Delhi High Court granted a compulsory license for the sound recordings owned by Phonographic Performance Limited (“PPL”) in response to a petition filed by Al Hamd Tradenation (“Petitioner”). The Petitioner was organizing a corporate event for 50 attendees at a hotel in Delhi. During the booking process, the hotel informed the Petitioner that...
Recently, in an intra-court appeal filed by Under Armor Inc. (“Appellant”), a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court overturned a single judge’s decision that had declined interim relief to the Appellant. By way of quick background, the Appellant had initiated a suit against Anish Agarwal and his company (“Respondents”) alleging, inter alia, trademark infringement, seeking...
Recently, the High Court of Delhi allowed a writ petition filed by Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mittal (“Petitioner”), thereby directing the Registrar of Trade Marks (“Respondent”) to restore and reinstate the Petitioner’s trademark MILTON. The Court further directed the Respondent to grant renewal of the said trademark, subject to the Petitioner’s filing of the requisite application...
Recently, the High Court of Delhi allowed a writ petition filed by Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mittal (“Petitioner”), thereby directing the Registrar of Trade Marks (“Respondent”) to restore and reinstate the Petitioner’s trademark MILTON. The Court further directed the Respondent to grant renewal of the said trademark, subject to the Petitioner’s filing of the requisite application...
In a recent decision, the Delhi High Court upheld the rejection of a patent application by the Indian Patent Office, reiterating the dual threshold for inventive step under the Indian Patents Act, i.e., not only must an invention demonstrate technical advancement, but it must also be non-obvious to a person skilled in the art (PSITA)....
In the recent judgment, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court, granted a decree of permanent injunction against M S Hotel Ritz & Ors (“Defendants”) restraining them from infringing the trademarks of The Ritz Hotel Limited & Ors (“Plaintiffs”) and declared the Plaintiffs’ RITZ, RITZ-CARLTON, THE RITZ-CARLTON Device marks as well-known trademarks in respect of hotels and...
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