The Supreme Court has clarified that there can be no right to the exclusive use of the word “MALABAR”. A Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi passed this judgment in a trademark battle for the use of the word Malabar for sale of Biriyani rice. The case was an appeal against an order dated March 1, 2017 passed by the High Court of Calcutta affirming the order of the Single Judge in which it was held that the respondent-defendant was entitled to use the word ‘MALABAR’ in conjunction with the mark ‘BAROMA’ for selling its product – Biryani […]
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