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Delhi HC Holds Name Change Doesn't Nullify Arbitration Clause, Refers Newgen Dispute To Arbitration
On 1 July, the Delhi High Court referred a trademark infringement dispute between Newgen Software Technologies Ltd and Newgen IT Technologies Ltd, formerly known as Vcare Infotech Solutions and Services Pvt Ltd, to arbitration. A Division Bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla set aside a Commercial Court order that had refused to refer the parties to arbitration, holding that a mere change in corporate name does not extinguish an arbitration clause in a subsisting agreement....
Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of AI Deepfakes, Cloned Voice Ads Targeting Actor Ravi Kishan
The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed multiple online intermediaries, including Google, YouTube and X, to take down deepfake videos, AI-generated content, and cloned-voice advertisements that infringe the personality rights of actor-politician Ravi Kishan.During the hearing today, Justice Jyoti Singh drew a line between content amounting to unauthorised use of the actor's persona through artificial intelligence, which was ordered to be taken down immediately, and content alleged to be merely...
Delhi High Court Refuses ITC Bid To Stop Adyar Gate Hotels' Use Of 'Dakshin' Mark
The Delhi High Court has refused to restrain Adyar Gate Hotels Limited from using the "DAKSHIN" trademark for its standalone Chennai restaurant. It held that ITC Limited's trademark infringement claim was not maintainable. The court also found that ITC had failed to establish a prima facie case for passing off or copyright infringement. A division bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla dismissed ITC's appeal against a single judge's order refusing interim relief. The...
LiveLawBiz IPR Monthly Digest: June, 2026
SUPREME COURTSupreme Court Stays Delhi High Court Order Restraining Use Of 'Medilice' Mark For Anti-Lice Hair OilCase Title: Kirit Bhadiadra v. Wings Pharmaceuticals Private LimitedCase Number: SLP (C) Diary No. 15782/2026Citation: 2026 LLBiz SC 227The Supreme Court has stayed the Delhi High Court's December 2025 judgment that upheld a trial court's finding of trademark infringement against Kirit Bhadiadra in a dispute over the mark "Medilice." A Bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Arun...
Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Swiss Company's Patent For Plastic Static Mixer
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the rejection of Swiss company Sulzer Mixpac AG's patent application for a plastic static mixer used to mix molten polymers. It held that the claimed invention did not involve an inventive step over the company's own earlier patents and amounted to "a mere modification" based on prior art. A division bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla upheld the earlier decision rejecting the application filed by the Swiss company. It found...
Trademark Registrar Can Be Court Subordinate To HC For Rectification Proceedings Transfers: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has recently held that the Registrar of Trade Marks can be regarded as a court subordinate to the High Court for the purpose of transferring pending trademark rectification proceedings. The ruling came while allowing the Institute for Technology and Management Trust (ITM) to transfer three rectification proceedings pending before the Registrar to the High Court, where a trademark suit between ITM and Samata Lok Sansthan Trust and 17 connected rectification proceedings are...
Politicians Must Tolerate AI Satire, But Not Vulgar Deepfakes: Delhi High Court In Raghav Chadha Case
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday partly allowed Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha's plea for interim relief against AI-generated deepfake content. It directed Meta Platforms and another platform arrayed as a defendant to take down URLs corresponding to six of the 52 impugned posts after finding them to contain "explicit content" that was "profane and vulgar in nature." The court declined to restrain the remaining content, holding that most of it amounted to political satire rather than defamation. ...
Delhi High Court Confirms Order Directing Kannada Film Mask Makers To Remove 'Naguva Nayana' Or Deposit ₹30 Lakh
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday made absolute an earlier ex parte ad-interim injunction in a copyright suit filed by Saregama India Ltd. against Black Madras Films. The suit concerns the unauthorised use of the classic Kannada song Naguva Nayana in the Kannada film Mask. By doing so, a single-judge bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela confirmed its earlier direction requiring the makers of Mask to either remove the song from the film before its OTT release or deposit ₹30 lakh with the court as...
Delhi High Court Rules Ilaiyaraaja Cannot License Songs From 134 Films Pending Saregama Copyright Suit
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday made absolute an ad interim injunction restraining composer Ilaiyaraaja from exploiting or licensing music composed for 134 films in a copyright suit filed by Saregama India Limited, claiming ownership over the works.The list includes iconic films such as 'Pallavi Anu Pallavi', '16 Vayathiniley', 'Mullum Malarum', 'Nizhalgal' and 'Moodu', all bearing Ilaiyaraaja's compositions.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela delivered the ruling today, which upheld the ex-parte...
Bombay HC Protects Bombay Group's Continued Use Of 'Vadilal' Trademark Pending Family Settlement Arbitration
The Bombay High Court has recently granted interim protection to one branch of the Gandhi family behind the Vadilal brand. It restrained Vadilal Industries Ltd., Vadilal International Pvt. Ltd. and other Ahmedabad Group entities from interfering with the Bombay Group's continued use of the "Vadilal" trademark in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana until arbitration over a family settlement is decided. Justice Amit Borkar held that the Bombay Group had established a...
Malabar Gold Cannot Monopolise 'Malabar'; Kerala High Court Sets Aside Passing Off Finding Against Delhi Jeweller
The Kerala High Court has partly allowed an appeal filed by the proprietor of Delhi-based Malabar Fashion Jewellery, setting aside a trial court's finding that the business had passed off its goods as those of Malabar Gold. It, however, retained the injunction restraining the jeweller from using a deceptively similar trademark and clarified that no exclusive rights can be claimed over the geographical expression "Malabar" by itself. Justice Mohammed Nias C.P. held that Malabar Gold's trademark...
California Northern District Court Rejects Uber's Eligibility Challenge To LBT GPS Tracking Patents
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California on 26 June 2026 held that Uber Technologies Inc.'s motion for judgment on the pleadings against LBT IP II LLC could not be sustained, finding that the asserted GPS tracking and location-display patents were not directed to abstract ideas and were patent-eligible. Judge Rita F. Lin rejected Uber's plea to invalidate LBT's patents at the pleadings stage. She held that the claim "involves more than merely gathering data,...