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1 - 10 of 27 (0.29 seconds)Century Traders vs Roshan Lal Duggar Co. on 27 April, 1977
13. He further submits that under the settled principles of law, it is the
priority in adoption and use which entitles the earlier adopter to claim
exclusive rights in a trade mark and not the extent of usage of the mark
between two parties as on the date of filing of suit. In any case, as the
appellants are admittedly the subsequent adopter and user of the mark, no
amount of sale or publicity would entitle the appellants to claim proprietary
rights in the impugned mark or would allow the Appellants to usurp the
existing mark of the pliantiff. Reliance is placed on Centuiy Traders vs
Roshan Lai Duggar (DB) AIR 1978 Delhi 250, Dhariwal Industries Ltd. vs
MSS Food Industries AIR 2005 SC 1999, Bhatia Plastics Vs Peacock
Industries AIR 1995 Delhi 144 and Laxmikant V. Patel vs Chetanbhat
Shah AIR 2002 SC 275.
Cadila Healthcare Limited vs Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited on 26 March, 2001
In a recent decision in the case of Cadila Health Care
Ltd. v. Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. [(2001) 5 SCC 73] a
Bench of three learned Judges, summed up the position of
law regarding tests to determine a passing-off action, with
the following observations: (SCC pp. 88 & 95, paras 18 &
35-37)
"18.
Kaviraj Pandit Durga Dutt Sharma vs Navaratna Pharmaceutical ... on 20 October, 1964
This is evident from the
decisions of this Court in the cases of National Sewing
Thread Co. Ltd. case [AIR 1953 SC 357] , Corn Products
Refining Co. case [AIR 1960 SC 142 : (1960) 1 SCR 968]
, Amritdhara Pharmacy case [Amritdhara
Pharmacy v. Satya Deo Gupta, AIR 1963 SC 449] , Durga
Dutt Sharma case [Durga Dutt Sharma v. Navaratna
Pharmaceutical Laboratories, AIR 1965 SC 980] ,
and Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd. case [Hoffmann-La
Roche & Co. Ltd. v. Geoffrey Manner & Co. (P) Ltd.,
(1969) 2 SCC 716] .
Wander Ltd. And Anr. vs Antox India P. Ltd. on 26 April, 1990
In the case of Wander Ltd. v. Antox India (P) Ltd. [1990
Supp SCC 727] a Bench of three learned Judges considered
the question of grant of interlocutory injunction under
Order 39 Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure in a case
under Section 29(2) of the Act and Section 55 of the
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Copyright Act, 1957 and held as follows: (SCC pp. 731-32
& 733, paras 9 & 14)
"9. Usually, the prayer for grant of an interlocutory
injunction is at a stage when the existence of the legal right
asserted by the plaintiff and its alleged violation are both
contested and uncertain and remain uncertain till they are
established at the trial on evidence. The court, at this stage,
acts on certain well-settled principles of administration of
this form of interlocutory remedy which is both temporary
and discretionary. The object of the interlocutory
injunction, it is stated
„... is to protect the plaintiff against injury by violation of
his rights for which he could not adequately be
compensated in damages recoverable in the action if the
uncertainty were resolved in his favour at the trial. The
need for such protection must be weighed against the
corresponding need of the defendant to be protected against
injury resulting from his having been prevented from
exercising his own legal rights for which he could not be
adequately compensated. The court must weigh one need
against another and determine where the "balance of
convenience" lies‟.
The Copyright Act, 1957
Industria De Diseno Textile Sa vs Oriental Cuisines Pvt. Ltd. And Ors. on 19 May, 2015
16. The plaintiff‟s also reluy upon the following judgments: Harish
Motichand Sariya v. Ajanta India Limited, 2003 SCC OnLine Bom 37; T.V.
Venugopal v. Ushodaya Enterprises Ltd., (2011) 4 SCC 85; Industria De
Diseno Textil SA v. Oriental Cuisines (P) Ltd., (2014) 8 HCC (Del) 428
and Dharam Pal Satya Pal v. Janta Sales Corporation, 1990 SCC OnLine
Del 104.
Dharam Pal Satya Pal vs Janta Sales Corporation on 4 April, 1990
16. The plaintiff‟s also reluy upon the following judgments: Harish
Motichand Sariya v. Ajanta India Limited, 2003 SCC OnLine Bom 37; T.V.
Venugopal v. Ushodaya Enterprises Ltd., (2011) 4 SCC 85; Industria De
Diseno Textil SA v. Oriental Cuisines (P) Ltd., (2014) 8 HCC (Del) 428
and Dharam Pal Satya Pal v. Janta Sales Corporation, 1990 SCC OnLine
Del 104.
Hearst Communications, Inc. vs Dinesh Varyani & Another on 27 April, 2009
19. The plaintiff applied for registration of trade marks LA AMERICANA
BURGER and AMERICANA BURGER claiming user since 16.07.2014. On
the other hand, the appellant applied for registration of the Trade Mark
AMERICANA in October, 2015 and launched a new variety of biscuits in the
name AMERICANA in January, 2016. It has been submitted by the
appellants that within 3 months of its launch of the new variety of biscuits,
the sale of the same crossed Rs. 8.5 crores. The plaintiff has to establish all
the ingredients of passing off to succeed for injunction. The plaintiff has
failed to show any exact advertisement figures or show that it has been a
long user of the impugned mark to establish goodwill. The word
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AMERICANA is a dictionary word which is used by several parties for the
purposes of trading and is not being used exclusively by the respondent. It is
also important to note that the appellant always used its famous mark
on the packaging of the butter cookies. The appellant relies upon Hearst
Communications, Inc. v. Dinesh Varyani, 2009 SCC OnLine Del 1138,
which held as under:
Khoday Distilleries Limited (Now Known ... vs The Scotch Whisky Association And ... on 27 May, 2008
In Khodav Distilleries Limited v. Scotch
Whisky Association reported in, (2008) 10 SCC 723, the
Supreme Court observed that while deciding the question of
deceptive similarity, one of the factors to be taken into
consideration is a class of purchasers who are likely to buy
the goods bearing the two marks, their education,
intelligence and degree of care that is likely to be exercised
in purchasing or using the goods. Where the class of
purchasers is illiterate and poor, the test applied is different
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in comparison to cases when the product is consumed by
educated and rich. Court in the said case observed: