Delhi High Court Restrains Delhi Restaurant From Using 'LAMA KITCHEN' Mark

The Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained a Delhi-based restaurant from using the trademark "LAMA KITCHEN" or any deceptively similar mark after holding that the registered proprietors had made out a prima facie case of trademark infringement and passing off.Justice Jyoti Singh observed that the balance of convenience lay in favour of the Himachal Pradesh-based proprietors of the registered "LAMA KITCHEN" marks. The court held that they were likely to suffer irreparable harm if the...

'Piracy Must Be Dealt With A Heavy Hand': Delhi High Court Grants Sony Relief Against 14 Rogue Websites

The Delhi High Court has observed that rogue websites engaged in piracy of copyrighted content pose a recurring threat and must be dealt with "a heavy hand." It has granted an ex parte ad interim injunction restraining 14 websites, including Cricgo.pro, from communicating, hosting, streaming or otherwise making available without authorisation any part of the Commonwealth Games 2026 and the Australian Open 2027, over which Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited holds exclusive broadcast and...

Delhi High Court Restrains Former JK Paper Employees From Using Company's Confidential Report

The Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained former employees of JK Paper Limited from using or employing the company's confidential and proprietary "Purta/Purtha" report after the company alleged that members of its IT department resigned together, took proprietary data belonging to it and later set up a new business.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani observed that the forensic report relied upon by JK Paper would have to undergo scrutiny before it could be relied upon. Even so, the court held...

Delhi High Court Directs Meta To Remove Zee's Copyrighted Content From 14 Facebook Pages

The Delhi High Court has recently directed Meta Platforms Inc. to take down infringing content uploaded by operators of 14 Facebook pages carrying Zee Entertainment Enterprises' television serials and web series. The court passed the ad-interim order but declined, at this stage, to direct blocking of the Facebook accounts themselves.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani passed the order in a suit filed by Zee against Meta and 18 other defendants. Zee sought permanent, mandatory and dynamic injunctions...

Uniqueness' Not A Statutory Test For Refusing Trademark Registration: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has recently set aside an order refusing registration of the trademark 'OFFER' for alcoholic beverages. It held that the Registrar of Trade Marks rejected the application by applying the non-statutory test of "uniqueness" instead of examining whether the mark was distinctive in relation to the goods for which registration was sought.Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing an appeal filed by ADS Spirits, which had applied to register the mark OFFER in Class 33 for "alcoholic...

Delhi HC Allows SC, HC Judges To Show Allowances As 'Receipts Not In Nature Of Income' Under New Tax Regime

The Delhi High Court, by way of an interim direction, has allowed Supreme Court and High Court judges to file their income tax returns by showing prescribed judicial allowances as “receipts not in the nature of income”, even while opting for the new tax regime.The order came in a petition filed by the Delhi Tax Bar Association challenging a September 12, 2025, Office Memorandum issued by the CBDT, which, according to the petitioner, denied judges opting for the new tax regime the benefit of...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Examine GST Liability On Diagnostic Services, Directs Petitioner To AAR

The Delhi High Court has recently refused to examine a challenge to the levy of 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on diagnostic services rendered by a private lab, observing that the issue falls within the jurisdiction of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) under the GST Act, 2017.A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetrapal and Amit Mahajan disposed of two writ petitions filed by a company after being informed that the vacancy in the Delhi Authority for Advance Ruling had been filled, thereby...

'Government Cannot Be Held Ransom': Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Vedanta's Oil Block Contract Extension Bid

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the Union Government's decision rejecting Vedanta Ltd's application for a ten-year extension of its Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for an offshore oil and gas block in Gujarat.Observing that the government "cannot be held ransom to the whims of a private company", the court held that Vedanta had rendered itself ineligible for an extension. It found that the company had unilaterally deducted the Government's share of Profit Petroleum towards its Special...

Delhi High Court Temporarily Restrains NBFC From Using 'Zepto' And 'Zepto Finance' Marks

The Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained an NBFC, Naman Finlease, and its directors from using the marks 'Zepto' and 'Zepto Finance' for their lending business. Justice Jyoti Singh passed the ad-interim order in a trademark infringement suit filed by quick-commerce platform Zepto, represented by Senior Advocate Swati Sukumar. Zepto submitted that it is the registered proprietor of the word mark and device mark ZEPTO, a coined term with no descriptive meaning or connection to any...

Delhi High Court Restrains Havai Home Products From Using 'HAVAI' Mark in Havells Passing Off Suit

The Delhi High Court has restrained Havai Home Products Pvt. Ltd. and the proprietor of Advance Coolers from selling, marketing, advertising, or offering for sale electrical goods under the marks 'HAVAI' and its device forms. The court held that the marks are deceptively similar to Havells' registered trademarks. Justice Jyoti Singh granted the interim injunction in a suit filed by Havells India Limited. The Court found that Havells had made out a prima facie case of passing off. Havells, an...

Delhi High Court Refuses Stay On Encashment Of Bank Guarantees In Jodhpur Railway Station Redevelopment Dispute

The Delhi High Court has refused an interim plea under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act seeking to restrain North Western Railway from invoking performance bank guarantees worth about ₹17.24 crore furnished under a ₹474.52 crore EPC contract for the redevelopment of Jodhpur Railway Station. The court held that the contractor had failed to establish the limited grounds on which unconditional bank guarantees can be restrained.Justice Subramonium Prasad held that the contractor had neither...

No Fresh Notice Needed After Award Is Set Aside If Arbitration Was Already Invoked: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on 16 July held that a party need not issue a fresh notice under Section 21 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (which marks commencement of arbitral proceedings) before seeking appointment of a new arbitrator after an arbitral award is set aside, if arbitration had already commenced through a valid notice. A Single-Judge Bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad rejected the objection raised by Sumant Aggarwal and others and appointed Mr. Kapil Sankhla as the sole...