Delhi High Court Upholds Dr. Reddy's Rights Over “REDDY” Mark, Rejects Acquiescence Defence

The The Delhi High Court on 18 May dismissed proceedings filed by Reddy Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and upheld reliefs granted in favour of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) Ltd. in a long-running dispute over the mark “REDDY”, affirming both the permanent injunction and the order directing removal of the trademark.A Division Bench Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla dismissed Reddy Pharmaceuticals' appeal against the Single Judge's decree and rejected its writ petition challenging the...

Delhi High Court Says Regoshin Healthcare's Online Presence Sufficient To Let Trademark Suit Proceed In Delhi

The Delhi High Court has recently refused to return a trademark infringement and passing off suit filed by Amritsar-based businessman Ravinder Singh against Regoshin Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and others. Singh has alleged infringement of his registered 'ROYAL' and 'ROYU' trademarks through the use of allegedly deceptively similar marks for pharmaceutical and allied products. Justice Jyoti Singh held that, at the threshold stage, the court was required to proceed on the basis that the averments in...

LiveLawBiz IPR Weekly Digest: May 11 - May 17, 2026

SUPREME COURTSupreme Court Refuses Flipkart Relief In MARQ Trademark Dispute, Gives 8 Weeks To Clear StockCase Title: Flipkart India Private Limited v. M/S Marc Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Case Number: SLP(C) No. 16438/2026 Citation: 2026 LLBiz SC 192The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with orders restraining Flipkart from using the 'MARQ' trademark in its dispute with Marc Enterprises, but gave the company eight weeks to sell off existing products bearing the mark The Delhi High Court on...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of JFE Steel's Patent For Electrical Steel Sheet Manufacturing Method

The Delhi High Court has set aside a patent rejection order passed against JFE Steel Corporation. It held that the Controller of Patents should ordinarily not reject a patent application on a single technical ground while leaving other objections undecided, as such an approach could unfairly consume the limited 20-year patent term through repeated remands and appeals. A bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that patent applications must be considered as a whole. It said the Controller...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Royalty Order Against DVD Makers Over Philips' DVD Decoding Patent

The Delhi High Court has set aside a 2018 decree that had directed two DVD player makers to pay royalty to Dutch electronics company Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV for alleged infringement of its DVD decoding technology patent while also quashing punitive damages awarded against one of them.A Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla allowed appeals by K.K. Bansal of Bhagirathi Electronics and his son Rajesh Bansal of Mangalam Technology, holding that Philips...

Delhi High Court Restrains Unauthorised Use Of 'Bachpan Ka Pyar' Hook Line, Seeks Revenue Details From YouTubers

The Delhi High Court has granted temporary relief to Ivy Entertainment Private Limited in its copyright suit over the song Bachpan Ka Pyar and its hook line “jaane meri janeman bachpan ka pyar bhool nahi jaana re”. The court restrained certain YouTube channel operators and unidentified infringers from using it without authorisation, and directed three named channel operators to disclose revenue earned from exploiting the song. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the ex parte ad-interim order on...

Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Pirated Copies Of Sanjay Dutt-Starrer Aakhri Sawal

A day after its theatrical release, the Delhi High Court protected the Sanjay Dutt-starrer Aakhri Sawal from online piracy, directing Google and Telegram to take down infringing content within 72 hours and granting a dynamic+ injunction to tackle newly discovered infringing links during the pendency of the suit. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the ex parte ad interim order on May 16, 2026, on a suit filed by Nikhil Nanda Motion Pictures LLP, the film's production house, after it alleged that...

Delhi High Court Declares GSK's Calpol A Well-Known Trademark For Pharma Products

The Delhi High Court has declared GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals' Calpol a well-known trademark for medicinal and pharmaceutical products under the Trade Marks Act. The ruling came in a suit against Walter Healthcare Private Limited, which had marketed pharmaceutical products under the mark 'Walpol', a near-identical mark differing from Calpol only in the replacement of the first letter. Justice Jyoti Singh delivered the oral judgment on May 15, 2026. During the pendency of the suit, Walter...

Delhi High Court Restrains Use Of Protex, Protrilex Marks In Danone's Protinex Trademark Suit

The Delhi High Court has decreed Danone's trademark infringement suit against Rockwell Pharmaceuticals, Deepali Enterprises, Vikas Nutrisciences Private Limited, Ankit Arora, and Deepak Arora, holding that their use of the marks 'Protex' and 'Protrilex' for nutritional products infringed Danone's registered 'Protinex' trademark. Justice Tejas Karia, by a judgment dated May 8, 2026, allowed Danone's plea for a summary ruling, holding that the five parties had no real prospect of successfully...

Supreme Court Refuses Flipkart Relief In MARQ Trademark Dispute, Gives 8 Weeks To Clear Stock

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with orders restraining Flipkart from using the 'MARQ' trademark in its dispute with Marc Enterprises, but gave the company eight weeks to sell off existing products bearing the markThe Delhi High Court on April 10, 2026 had dismissed Flipkart's appeal and upheld the injunction in favour of Marc Enterprises. It held that “MARC” and “MARQ” were phonetically, structurally, and visually similar and likely to cause confusion among consumers.A Bench of...

Patna HC Quashes FIR Against Prashant Kishor Over Alleged Theft Of INC's 2020 Bihar Campaign Intellectual Property

The Patna High Court has quashed an FIR against political strategist Prashant Kishor in a case over allegations that he used campaign materials claimed as intellectual property by Shashwat Gautam, a data analytics professional associated with the Indian National Congress.The court held that criminal law cannot be invoked merely by invoking the phrase “intellectual property” where the allegations do not disclose any offense. The bench further found that the material claimed by Gautam was...

Delhi High Court Upholds Interim Injunction Against Geeta Publishing House Over Subhash Dey Books

The Delhi High Court has recently upheld a District Judge's refusal to vacate an interim injunction restraining Geeta Publishing House from publishing, selling, revising, editing, circulating, or advertising Subhash Dey's Business Studies books for Classes XI and XII, or any other books authored by him. It held that the dispute over whether the publishing agreement was validly terminated must be decided at trial. “Further, it is not the plea of Mr Wason that the memorandum of agreement is not...