Delhi High Court Restrains Cosmetic Company From Copying Visage Beauty's O3+ Facial Kits Packaging And Mark

In a clash over look-alike facial kits, the Delhi High Court has granted Visage Beauty an interim injunction restraining Freecia Professional India from copying its packaging layout, usage instructions, ingredients text and from using the trademark 'DERMOMELAN'. A single bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the order on November 21 while hearing Visage Beauty & Healthcare...

Refusal Of Demand Notice By Guarantor Counts As Valid Service: NCLT Hyderabad

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Hyderabad has recently held that refusal by a personal guarantor to accept delivery of a demand notice constitutes valid and deemed service under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, and has admitted the petition filed by STCI Finance Ltd. to initiate personal insolvency proceedings against Ramnath Nandakumar, personal guarantor of Natems...

Delhi High Court Protects 'Aaj Tak' Mark, Restrains News Agencies From Using It In Source Code And Meta Tags

The Delhi High Court on Friday restrained Amar Ujala and News18 from using the trademark 'Aaj Tak' in their website source code or as meta tags, after both companies informed the Court that they had already removed the infringing links and did not wish to contest the trademark suit filed by Living Media India Ltd, owner of the Aaj Tak news brand. A single bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam...

IBC | Section 7 Application Can't Be Rejected For Curable Defects In Affidavit : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday (November 24) observed that procedural defects in a Section 7 insolvency application under IBC, such as a defective affidavit, are curable and cannot be used as a basis for summary dismissal. “Mere filing of a 'defective' affidavit in support of an application would, however, not render the very application non est and liable to be rejected on that ground as it...

NCLT Clears First Motion Toward Consolidation Of Mirae Asset Sharekhan's NBFC Operations

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Mumbai has recently approved the initial application filed by Mirae Asset Sharekhan Financial Services Limited, the lending business formerly associated with stock broking company Sharekhan, for its merger with Mirae Asset Financial Services (India) Private Limited, facilitating consolidation of the Mirae Asset Group's non banking finance operations...

Orissa High Court Bars Coercive Action Against Tata Steel in ₹2,410 Crore Chrome Ore Dispute

The Orissa High Court on Friday restrained authorities from taking any coercive action against Tata Steel in connection with a Rs 2,410 crore demand over alleged shortfall in dispatch of chrome ore from its Sukinda Chromite Block, granting the company interim protection until the next hearing on December 3. In its November 21 order, the bench of the Chief Justice Harish Tandon and...

Central Sales Tax | Cross-Border Trademark Transfers Are Export Of Goods, Not Taxable As Local Sale: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that the assignment of the well-known trademark “Crocin” by Duphar Interfran Ltd. to SKB Plc (UK) amounted to a sale “in the course of export” of intangible goods, and therefore could not be taxed as a local sale within the State of Maharashtra under the Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959. A Division Bench of Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Advait M....

Intellectual Property Rights Weekly Round-Up: November 17–23, 2025

Ab Initio Technology LLC v. The Controller of Patents & Designs, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 421 Shroff Geeta v. Asst. Controller Of Patents And Design, IPDPTA/88/2023 FMC Corporation & Ors. v. Natco Pharma Limited, 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1518 Hemant Karamchand Rohera v. Controller General of Patents and Designs & Anr., Commercial Misc. Petition No. 11/2022 Fontaine Limited...

IBBI Caps Assignments For Individual Insolvency Professionals At Ten At A Time

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India has issued the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2025, placing limits on the total number of assignments that an individual insolvency professional may handle at a given time. The regulations come into force on November 20. The amendment introduces Regulation 7B titled Number...

Madras High Court Asks Patent Office To Re-Evaluate Objections Against Allied Metallurgical's Anti-Stick Coating Patent

The Madras High Court has recently set aside a Patent Office order that refused Hi Tech Chemicals' challenge to an anti-stick coating patent owned by Allied Metallurgical Products, after finding that the authority failed to properly examine the objections raised. The court said that “the quality of obviousness analysis leaves much to be desired” and directed a fresh hearing before...

Transfer Of Asset After Commencement Of CIRP, Even With NOC From Lender, Illegal: NCLT Allahabad

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Allahabad has recently held that any transfer of assets after the commencement of an insolvency process is illegal, even if supported by a No Objection Certificate from a secured creditor. The tribunal said such transfers cannot be considered procedural outcomes and amount to a breach of the moratorium. The tribunal was deciding an application filed...

Advance Paid Under Land-Development MoU Not Financial Debt, Can't Trigger CIRP: NCLAT

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal at Delhi recently held that advance amounts paid under a 2013 land development Memorandum of Understanding for acquiring and amalgamating land in Noida were not financial debt under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and upheld the dismissal of insolvency applications filed by Airwil JKM Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. and JKM Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd....