Intellectual Property (IP) Law

An interim injunction restraining a rival from using your trademark is only as good as your ability to prove, later, that they broke it. In India, that proof usually surfaces on a phone or a laptop: a screenshot of a listing on an e-commerce site, a photograph of a shop signage,

A brand can be famous across the world and still lose a passing off case in India. That is the uncomfortable lesson at the heart of Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha v. Prius Auto Industries , where the Supreme Court refused to protect the globally known Prius name against an India