Arbitral Proceedings Cannot Be Terminated Twice; Recall Rejection Cannot Be Challenged As An Award: Delhi HC

Arbitral proceedings, once terminated, cannot be terminated a second time, the Delhi High Court has held while ruling that a party cannot treat an arbitrator's refusal to recall an earlier termination order as a fresh termination capable of challenge as an arbitral award. “Arbitral proceedings can be terminated only once and once terminated they cannot again be terminated a second time. The dismissal of the recall application could not, therefore, be treated as a second order terminating the...

Delhi High Court Halts Arbitration in Ramprastha–Rhine Power Dispute Pending Contempt Ruling

The Delhi High Court on 20 April upheld a Single Judge's order directing that arbitration proceedings between Ramprastha Promoters & Developers Pvt. Ltd. and investor Rhine Power Pvt. Ltd. remain stayed until the Court decides a pending contempt petition concerning alleged sale of fifteen flats in breach of a subsisting Section 9 injunction. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia dismissed Ramprastha's intra-court appeal and affirmed the...

Delhi High Court Questions Merchandiser's Authority To Sell Akkineni Nagarjuna-Branded T-Shirts

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday questioned a merchandise seller's claim that it was lawfully selling Akkineni Nagarjuna-branded T-shirts, after the defendant admitted it had no direct agreement with either the actor or the production house and could not immediately produce documents establishing its claimed authority. The exchange took place before Justice Tushar Rao Gedela in veteran Telugu actor Akkineni Nagarjuna's personality rights suit against entities allegedly using his name, image, and...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of South Korean Pharma's Patent Application, Orders Fresh Review

The Delhi High Court has set aside a Controller of Patents order refusing South Korean pharmaceutical company Hanmi Pharm Co. Ltd.'s patent application for a pharmaceutical compound and its manufacturing process, finding that the Controller had entirely failed to consider the process claims submitted by the applicant. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, in an order dated May 11, 2026, remanded the matter to the Patent Office for fresh consideration. The Court directed that Hanmi Pharm be given a fresh...

Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Patent Application For Counterfeit Product Detection System

The Delhi High Court has dismissed an appeal against the rejection of a patent application for a counterfeit product detection system, holding that the invention failed to meet statutory disclosure requirements because the complete specification did not sufficiently explain how it would actually work. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, in a judgment delivered on May 11, held that while the invention proposed a consumer-friendly mechanism to verify genuine products using visible and hidden codes, the...

Delhi HC Upholds Arbitral Award Limiting Payment To 25% For Cables Laid In Existing Ducts In BSNL Project

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed Sterlite Technologies Ltd.'s challenge to an arbitral award that limited its payment to 25% of the quoted service cost for optical fiber cables laid through other empty ducts already laid in the same multi-duct trench under a defence telecom project. Justice Avneesh Jhingan held that Clause 28(iii) of the purchase order independently governed the issue, regardless of the dispute over the applicability of the tender clause dealing with government ducts. ...

Delhi High Court Protects Select CityWalk, Bars Use of Deceptively Similar “Global CityWalk” Mark

The Delhi High Court on 8 May granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction restraining a real estate company from using the mark “Global CityWalk” for its proposed commercial project, holding that the impugned mark was deceptively similar to the registered trademarks of Select CityWalk. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, while allowing the application, restrained Garg Realtech from using the impugned mark pending adjudication of the suit. He held: “A comparison of the competing marks leaves no manner of...

Delhi HC Sets Aside Disqualification Of Bid For Arbitration Centre Work Over 'Hyper-Technical' Objections

The Delhi High Court has set aside the disqualification of a company's technical bid for interior and fit-out work at the India International Arbitration Centre (IIAC), holding that “hyper-technical” objections relating to solvency certificates cannot defeat the objective of a fair and competitive tender process. A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Amit Mahajan observed that the exclusion of bidders on a “myopic view or on hyper-technical grounds” would undermine the very...

Delhi High Court Restrains Electronics Retailer From Screening Films On TVs Without Copyright Society's Licence

The Delhi High Court has recently temporarily restrained an electronics retail chain from playing films from copyright society Cinefil Producers Performance Limited's repertoire at its Delhi stores without a licence.It has also directed the retailer to suspend satellite, cable, and internet-enabled transmission systems used for such screenings until it obtains a valid licence.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the order on May 7, 2026, in a suit filed by Cinefil Producers Performance Limited...

Pre-Arbitration Mutual Discussion Clauses Are Directory, Not Mandatory: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on 7 May held that failure to engage in pre-arbitral mutual discussions cannot bar invocation of an arbitration clause or appointment of an arbitrator under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, since clauses requiring parties to first attempt amicable settlement are directory and not mandatory. Justice Mini Pushkarna appointed Advocate Isha Bhalla as sole arbitrator to adjudicate disputes between Orix Corporation India Ltd. and Peters Surgical India...

Bombay High Court Restrains Circulation Of Berger Paint Ad Suggesting Asian Paints Product Was A 'Fraud'

The Bombay High Court has restrained the circulation of a Berger Paints advertisement comparing its Easy Clean product with an Asian Paints paint, after finding a prima facie case of product disparagement and flagging a meme in the clip that exclaimed “Fraud!”.Justice Arif S. Doctor held that a “clear case of disparagement” was made out. The ad-interim order was passed on May 8 in a commercial intellectual property suit filed by Asian Paints Limited against Namgial Enterprise and others,...

T-Series Tells Delhi HC That Trimurti's 1988 Assignment Lets It Use Tridev's 'Oye Oye' In Dhurandhar 2

After mediation between the parties failed on May 6, T-Series on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the 1988 assignment agreement gave it broad rights in the underlying works of the Tridev song Oye Oye, including the right to use them in another film, as it defended the use of the track as Rang De Lal in Dhurandhar: The Revenge. Senior Counsel Akhil Sibal, appearing for T-Series, continued his submissions before Justice Tushar Rao Gedela by taking the court through the 1988 assignment...