IP Case Law › Trade Marks › Reliance Industries Limited v. Pawan Kumar Gupta & Ors.
Relevant Acts and provisions
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Copyright Act, 1957
Trade Marks Act, 1999
Provisions considered: Sections 29 and 135 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, Section 51 of the Copyright Act, 1957, and Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015.
Brief facts
Reliance Industries Limited, owner of well-known marks, discovered that fictitious sellers were manufacturing and selling fast-moving consumer goods such as flour and pulses bearing counterfeit packaging on several e-commerce platforms.
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Keywords
Dynamic Injunction Online Infringement Passing Off Trade Dress Well-known Trade Mark
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