Decided by the High Court of Delhi on 4th March, 2022.
FACTS
The Plaintiff, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, established in the year 1956 was a registered proprietor of various words marks and device marks. Its products bore the mark “KHADI” in both English and Hindi as well as in artistic and logo form along with the Charkha Logos. The Plaintiff not only dealt with the products of Khadi but also with various medicinal products and were regulated and promoted by…
First Publication Date: 7th December 2010.
Trade Secrets form an important part of intellectual property owned by most knowledge driven companies. Infact, patents and others are just the tip of the intellectual property ice berg of a company, the rest being trade secrets. Most countries including India do not have legislations protecting trade secrets and the law with respect to their protection emanates from court decisions.
Agreements have been recognized by Indian courts to be valid measures to protect secrets.…
First Publication Date: 13th June 2010
Supreme Court vacated Interim Application passed in favor of plaintiff and also allowed
the IA in favor of defendants. This case is a hearing of interim application before
Supreme Court while main suit was pending for trial.
Case Facts
Well-known authors Ratanlal and Dhirajlal wrote books on IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act,
Torts, Law of Crimes and Bombay Criminal Cases. All these six books were assigned to
the defendants by Mrs. Mary. Later, assignor and the defendants had a legal dispute
which was…