India Trademark Updates

India and Australia have collaborated to protect traditional knowledge through patent cooperation, preventing the grant of patents on knowledge that is already part of India's documented traditional heritage.
- The Bombay High Court has restrained SUPREMES GOLD for deceptively similar trademark infringement, citing an ex facie illegal registration.
- The Delhi High Court has declared GSK's CALPOL a well-known trademark, and protected Sun Pharma's PANTOCID trademark, granting injunction against PANTOPACID.
- The Supreme Court has refused the Ramayan trademark registration due to its religious significance, and Louis Vuitton has won a major trademark case in China for its registered floral design.
The Indian courts have been active in protecting trademarks, with the Delhi High Court protecting Sun Pharma's PANTOCID trademark and the Bombay High Court offering John Cockerill Hamon interim relief in a trademark dispute.