Trade Mark Registry Archives

[Electronica Trade Mark] SC upholds Bombay HC order directing Registrar to decide applications for adding subsequent proprietor de novo; Directs for expeditious disposal

The Trade Mark Registry allowed the Form TM-24 Applications of the Electronica Hitech Machines Tools Private Limited for bringing on record their name as the subsequent proprietor. Electronica India Limited challenged the said purported order.

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KFC cannot have exclusive right in the word “CHICKEN”; Delhi High Court directs Trade Mark Registry to instead consider application for advertisement of the mark “CHICKEN ZINGER” in Class 29

The Delhi High Court held that KFC cannot have any exclusive right in the word “CHICKEN”, but the Court directed the Trade Mark Registry to proceed for advertisement of application for the mark “CHICKEN ZINGER” in Class 29.

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Delhi High Court confirms ad-interim ex-parte order of injunction passed in favour of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. for its mark ‘FORZEST’; Cost of Rs. 10 lakhs imposed for concealing material facts

Delhi High Court: In a trade mark infringement case where the ex-parte ad-interim order of injunction was challenged, the Single

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Refusal of a trade mark without even affording a hearing would be contrary to fundamental tenets of natural justice: Del HC

Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J., expressed that, refusing trade mark without even affording a hearing would be contrary to the