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Judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts on patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and geographical indications — organised by Act and section, each with a link to the judgment on the court’s website.
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for “Appeal Dismissed”
Bharat Glass Tube Limited v. Gopal Glass Works Limited
A design's novelty and originality under the Designs Act must be assessed by comparing it, as applied to the specific article for which registration is sought, against prior art shown to have been applied to the same or a similar …
CancellationDesign RegistrationNoveltyOriginalityPatentsBoehringer Ingelheim International GMBH v. The Controller of Patents & Anr.
A divisional application under Section 16 is maintainable only where the claims of the parent application themselves disclose a plurality of distinct inventions; disclosure of additional inventions solely in the specification, wit…
Claim ConstructionDivisional ApplicationPatent ProsecutionPlurality Of InventionsPatentsCanva Pty Ltd & Ors. v. RxPrism Health Systems Private Limited & Anr.
An appellate court will not disturb a reasoned interim injunction in a patent infringement suit concerning a software-implemented feature where the Single Judge's prima facie view is sustainable.
Appeal DismissedInteractive ContentInterim InjunctionSoftware-related PatentPatentsF. Hoffmann-La Roche AG & Anr. v. Natco Pharma Limited
A credible challenge to patent validity under Section 64(1)(f), showing that the claimed compound is an obvious and predictable structural modification of a compound already disclosed in the patentee's own earlier prior art, can d…
EvergreeningGenus-Species PatentInterim InjunctionInventive StepPatentsHirotsu Bio Science Inc. v. Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs
A cancer-detection method, including its preparatory steps that serve only the diagnosis, is a diagnostic method excluded from patentability under Section 3(i).
Cancer DetectionDiagnostic MethodNematodesPatent Refusal UpheldCopyrightIndian Performing Right Society Ltd. v. Eastern India Motion Pictures Association & Ors.
Where music or lyrics are composed for a cinematograph film by an engaged composer or lyricist for valuable consideration, the film producer becomes the first owner of copyright in that contribution under Section 17 and thereby ac…
Assignment And LicensingCinematograph FilmCopyright SocietyFirst OwnershipTrade MarksKaviraj Pandit Durga Dutt Sharma v. Navaratna Pharmaceutical Laboratories
An action for infringement of a registered trade mark is a statutory remedy in which the use of a deceptively similar mark is itself actionable regardless of get-up, packaging or intent to deceive, whereas an action for passing of…
Acquired DistinctivenessDeceptive SimilarityDescriptive MarksInfringementTrade MarksMahendra & Mahendra Paper Mills Ltd. v. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
A trader may be restrained at the interim stage from adopting a corporate or trade name deceptively similar to a widely reputed name, even for a different line of business, where it is likely to cause confusion or suggest a trade …
Corporate NameDissimilar GoodsInterim InjunctionPassing OffTrade MarksMarico Limited v. Agro Tech Foods Limited
A trade mark consisting of ordinary descriptive words remains vulnerable to a competitor's bona fide descriptive use under Sections 30(2)(a) and 35 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, notwithstanding registration; such a mark attains pr…
Descriptive MarksDistinctivenessGeneric MarksPassing OffTrade MarksN.R. Dongre & Ors. v. Whirlpool Corporation & Anr.
A passing off action does not depend on registration of the mark in the country where protection is sought, and the goodwill necessary to sustain such an action may be established through transborder reputation built up by adverti…
GoodwillInterim InjunctionPassing OffTransborder Reputation