India: Delhi High Court Grants Injunction For Unauthorized Use Of The Mark ‘Tata Water Plus’

The Hon’ble High Court of Delhi on November 9, 2017, in the case of Tata Sons Limited & Ors. vs. M/S Mayuri Beverages held against Mayuri Beverages and in favor of Tata Sons Limited for passing off packet water pouches containing the mark “TATA Water Plus” which is the trademark of the Tata Sons Limited is the proprietor and owner.
Brief background

Tata Sons Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘Plaintiff no. 1’) is the holding […]

By | October 23rd, 2017 ||

India: Safely Claiming Priority From A Patent-Application Filed By Different-Applicant

A right to claim priority from an as-filed application is not just restricted to an applicant of the Priority application, but may be also availed by ‘another/different’ applicant for the purposes of filing a later application claiming priority from the priority application. Not only such other ‘applicant’ of the later-application may be different from the original priority-setting application, the later-filed application may be either equivalent to the priority application or a ‘variant’ (e.g. improvement […]

By | October 22nd, 2017 ||

Argentina: Free Trade Agreement: Implications For Patents And Designs

The European Union (EU) and the four founding members of sub-regional trade bloc Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) for the last 17 years as part of a broader Association Agreement between the two regions.

After a pause in the EU-Mercosur negotiations in 2012, these were re-launched in May 2016. Since then, there have been several rounds of negotiations, with the pace picking up in recent months.

The […]

By | October 21st, 2017 ||