Category: Supreme Court

The second edition of Eashan Ghosh’s 2020 book “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” is out now! Eashan shares a short extract from the book’s Preface, highlighting the stimuli for the second edition. Eashan has been practicing as an intellectual property advocate and consultant in New Delhi since 2011 and has

          It is definitely most refreshing, most reassuring and most reinvigorating to learn that none other than the Supreme Court which is the top court in India while adhering fully, firmly and finally to the well known old adage that, “Example is better than precept” has led from the front in demonstrating most boldly that

[A big thanks to Praharsh for his inputs on the post.] On 02 August 2024, a three judges bench of the Supreme Court (“SC”), consisting of Justices Dr D Y Chandrachud, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, in the matter of Novartis AG v. Natco Pharma Limited (pdf), dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) over

On August 21, 2024, names of Mr. Ajay Digpaul, Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, and Ms. Shwetasree Majumder were recommended for appointment as Judges of the Delhi High Court by the Supreme Court Collegium. The names were recommended to the SC Collegium by the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court in consultation with the two

On 23 July 2024, the Supreme Court  (SC) delivered a split verdict on the commercial sale of Genetically Modified Mustard (GM Mustard) in India in the case of Gene Campaign vs. Union of India and Others. A Division Bench (DB) comprising Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Sanjay Karol issued two separate judgments. Justice BV Nagarathna

Continuing the discussion (see here for Part I) on the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court’s 2023 Keywords decisions, Malak Sheth critiques the Courts’ approach, arguing that use of a trademark in digital world cannot be viewed from the same lens of assessing their use in the physical world. Malak is a third year

Image from here [This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta. Aarav is a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. He is passionate about geopolitics, foreign policy, international trade, and intellectual property and spends his time reading and watching sports.]  The very anticipated Google AdWords case has reached a significant juncture in the Supreme

                                   It is quite significant to note that in a major development, we saw how none other than the Apex Court itself in a very learned, laudable, landmark, latest and logical judgment titled Himanshu Sharma vs State of Madhya

Template from Nokia’s timeless “hands” commercial (see here) In a major development, all the patent disputes (including the 5G SEP dispute) between Oppo and Nokia stand settled as both parties enter into a cross-licensing agreement. Though the terms of the agreement have not been made public, as reported by Sukanya Sarkar here (paywalled) the agreement

In a recent hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the validity of electoral bonds, the Supreme Court proposed the development of an alternative system to address the flaws in the existing electoral bonds system. The case, titled Association for Democratic Reforms and Anr vs Union of India Cabinet Secretary and ors, was heard by