53. Responding to the submission of Mr. Sibal that the plaintiff
was, vis-à-vis the stand taken before the Trade Marks Registry while
applying for registration of its ―GLUCON-D‖ trademark, approbating
and reprobating, Mr. Lall submits that, even at that stage, the plaintiff
had claimed distinctiveness in respect of the mark which it was
seeking to register, i.e. GLUCON-D. The further statement that
―GLUCON-D‖ was not similar to the marks cited by the Registry as
pre-existing registered marks, he further submits, cannot disentitle the
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plaintiff from claiming infringement of its registered trademarks by
the use, by the defendants, of ―Gluco-D‖. The reliance, by Mr. Sibal,
on Raman Kawatra22, he further submits, is misplaced, as the
principle enunciated in para 43 of the said decision is that a party,
having taken a particular stand before the Registry, to answer the
Section 11 objection predicated on the defendant's trademark cannot,
in infringement proceedings, take a contrasting stand, vis-à-vis the
same trademark of the defendants. Inasmuch as the impugned marks
of the defendants were never cited as rival marks when the plaintiff
applied for registration of ―GLUCON-D‖ or ―GLUCON-C‖, Mr. Lall
submits that the Raman Kawatra22 principle would not apply.