Tag: Prior User

The importance of goodwill

A passing off dispute in India has clarified the main points that rights owners should follow when seeking to defend a trademark, as Geetanjali Visvanathan explains. Trademark attorneys anywhere
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Celebrating Trans-Border Reputation

In a landmark judgment the Delhi High Court accepts Toyota’s global reputation in PRIUS to have spilled-over sufficiently to India making it a well-known mark here too. A seven
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Vested Rights in Trademarks

Nupur Sharma explains how trade mark rights are vested in owners without any formalities, beginning instead with first use. In the Intellectual Property field, Trade Marks rights are
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