- Court
- Bombay High Court
- Date of judgment
- Outcome
- Disposed of
Headnote
Operation of the judgment dismissing the suit stayed pending appeal, and the interim injunction that had run in the trial court since January 2012 continued. The Division Bench held that the trial court's finding that the defendants were the prior user was perverse, the plaintiff's mark having been registered abroad in 1954 and in India on April 25, 1979, against the defendants' adoption in 1992, with no justifiable explanation for that adoption. Questions on whether the person who affirmed the plaint had to enter the witness box, and whether the suit was maintainable for want of filing by an authorised person, were left to the hearing of the appeal.
Headnote by BRB Legal, written from the judgment: a summary for reference, not legal advice. Read the judgment itself before relying on it.