Nilkamal Crates And Contaners & Anr. vs Ms. Reena Rajpal & Anr. on 6 November, 2023
27. Mr. Satish Kumar sought to place reliance on the fact that the
registrations for the device marks and was granted to
the plaintiff by inserting a disclaimer, disclaiming all rights to
exclusivity in respect of user of the letter "N". As I have already held
in Pernod Ricard India Pvt. Ltd. v. A.B. Sugars Ltd.10, the only effect
of such a disclaimer is that the plaintiff cannot seek an injunction
against infringement, by claiming exclusivity over the disclaimed part.
In other words, had the plaintiffs' claim been that the defendants'
mark was deceptively simlar to the plaintiffs only because of the
common "N" motif, the plaintiffs would have had no case, as "N" was
specifically disclaimed while obtaining registration for the device
mark.