Counterfeiting A “Menace”: Delhi High Court Grants Temporary Injunction Against Counterfeit ISOPURE Products

The Delhi High Court has granted a temporary injunction in favour of American sports nutrition company GPN Commercial LLC, restraining several unknown persons from manufacturing, storing, or selling counterfeit products under the popular protein powder brand “ISOPURE” trademark. The court observed that counterfeiting is a “menace which needs to be curbed with strict heads,” and noted that the sale of low-quality products could harm both the plaintiff's reputation and public health. In an...

Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Patent For Cancer Screening Method, Calls It Non-Patentable Diagnostic Process

The Delhi High Court has upheld the rejection of a patent application filed by the biopharmaceutical firm Geron Corporation for a method aimed at selecting cancer patients for specialized therapy.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, on March 17, 2026, held that the proposed “in vitro screening method” functions as a diagnostic process, which is barred from patentability under Section 3(i) of the Patents Act. The court observed that regardless of whether a test is labeled as "screening" or...

Delhi High Court Restores PADAN Trademark Suit, Says Plaint Cannot Be Rejected If Cause Of Action Is Disclosed

The Delhi High Court has set aside a single-judge order that had rejected a lawsuit filed by Coromandel Indag Products India Ltd. concerning the trademark “PADAN” and its associated packaging for insecticides, holding that the plaint disclosed a triable cause of action and could not have been rejected at the threshold. In a judgment dated March 18, 2026, a Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that the single judge went beyond the limited scope of Order...

Section 311 CrPC Can Be Invoked To Seek Additional Documents In Black Money Act Case: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has recently held that courts can invoke Section 311 of the CrPC, which allows summoning or recalling evidence, to permit additional documents to be placed on record if necessary for a just decision, even in prosecution under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed petitions filed by businessman Deepak Talwar challenging orders of the trial court and revisional court, which had allowed the...

Delhi High Court Upholds Arbitral Award Allowing BSNL's 12.63 Crores Counterclaim In Optical Fibre Cable Dispute

The Delhi High Court refused to interfere with an arbitral award allowing counterclaims to BSNL amounting to Rs. 12.63 crores in a dispute arising out of supply of optical fibre cables, holding that the supplier remained bound by its assurance regarding the life of the cables A single bench of Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar observed that when the supplier had assured that the life of the cables supplied by it was 32.8 years, which was beyond the tender requirement of 20 years then it was...

Delhi High Court Declines To Quash Customs SCN, Says Limitation Plea To Be Examined By Adjudicating Authority

The Delhi High Court has recently declined to exercise its writ jurisdiction to quash a show cause notice issued under the Customs Act, 1962, holding that the petitioner's plea regarding limitation must be decided by the adjudicating authority.A division bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Ajay Digpaul observed,“Once the petitioner has submitted his explanation on the issue of limitation based on the judgments referred above, it can be expected of the respondents to deal with the...

NCLT Technical Member Moves Delhi HC Against Acting President Appointment, Claims He Is Senior-Most

NCLT Technical Member Kaushalendra Kumar Singh on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court, challenging the appointment of Justice Bachu Venkat Balaram Das as Acting President of the National Company Law Tribunal.The petition challenges the Ministry of Corporate Affairs notification dated March 16, 2026, which appointed Member (Judicial) Bachu Venkat Balaram Das as acting president after the completion of the term of then Acting President Deep Chandra Joshi.The matter arises after a vacancy occurred...

Failure To Deny Pleadings, No Cross-Examination: Delhi High Court Upholds Arbitral Award Against Proto Developers

The Delhi High Court has upheld an arbitral award directing Proto Developers and Technologies Ltd. to pay over Rs 12 crore to Antriksh Realtech Pvt. Ltd., holding that where a party fails to specifically deny a claim and does not cross-examine the opposing witness on a crucial issue, the arbitral tribunal is entitled to treat the evidence as unrebutted and the claim as established.Rejecting Proto Developers' challenge to the Rs 9-crore counterclaim, the Court noted that the tribunal treated the...

'Tale Of Two Countries': Delhi High Court Says Peru, Chile Both Linked To PISCO, Refuses Exclusive GI To Peru

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday affirmed that Peru cannot claim the exclusive, standalone “PISCO” geographical indication (GI) for its national spirit in India, holding that the name is historically associated with alcoholic beverages produced in both Peru and Chile and granting Peru sole rights would lead to consumer confusion. Calling the dispute a “Tale of Two Countries,” a Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla was dealing with an appeal filed by the...

Delhi High Court Refers Legends League Cricket Media Rights Dispute Between Jiostar And Absolute Legends To Mediation

The Delhi High Court refrained from granting interim relief to Jiostar India Pvt. Ltd. in its dispute with Absolute Legends Sports Pvt. Ltd., the company that runs the Legends League Cricket tournament, over media and commercial rights linked to the league. A single-judge bench of Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar instead asked the parties to attempt a settlement through mediation after both the parties agreed to the same. "Acceding to the same, the matter is referred to Delhi High Court...

Delhi High Court Appoints Arbitrator Though Arbitration Clause in Offers Not Repeated in Work Orders

The Delhi High Court has held that the arbitration clause contained in techno-commercial offers formed part of the contract between Moonwalk Infra Projects Private Limited and Onstruq Interlayer Private Limited, even though the subsequent work orders did not repeat the clause, since the work orders were issued with reference to and on the basis of those offers. A Single Bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh observed that “the Work Orders do not stand in isolation but are intrinsically linked to and...

GST SCN Can Cover Multiple Financial Years Under Sections 73 & 74, Ambika Traders Applies Beyond Fraud: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that show cause notices (SCNs) under the GST regime can cover multiple financial years, both under Sections 73 and 74 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.A division bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Ajay Digpaul clarified that its earlier ruling in Ambika Traders is not confined to cases involving fraudulent availment of input tax credit (ITC).For context, the petitioner company, engaged in the supply/installation of CCTV surveillance systems,...