{"id":2281,"date":"2017-08-16T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T04:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T04:32:27","slug":"mayo-foundations-ip-rights-recognised-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/mayo-foundations-ip-rights-recognised-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Foundation\u2019s IP rights recognised in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aurangabad District Court upholds intellectual property rights of Mayo Foundation, administrator of the world-renowned medical research and practice, Mayo Clinics. Defendants\u2019 use of the \u201ctrade name as &#8216;MAYO&#8217;, itself is sufficient\u201d to conclude dishonest adoption, it holds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER) is a charitable organisation which manages Mayo Clinics, the world-renowned centre for clinical, diagnostic, and research services. Mayo\u2019s reputation and its MAYO trademark and logo are present in over 200 countries, including India.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 Mayo came to know the defendants were trading as \u2018Mayo Life Sciences Private Limited\u2019 \u00a0for their business of marketing and sale of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products which were being sold under MAYO and other formative marks. The defendants\u2019 website was hosted on a <a href=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/tag\/domain-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">domain name<\/a> employing the MAYO name, and on it they had reproduced the story of Mayo\u2019s origin as its own, including references to Mayo\u2019s founders and Mayo Clinics itself.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was instituted before Aurangabad District Court, which noted that Mayo\u2019s reputation and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/tag\/goodwill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goodwill <\/a>had spilt into India. It took into account Mayo\u2019s news and health reports being routinely cited in mainstream newspapers, magazines and online publications. Moreover, Indian citizens frequently availed medical services offered by Mayo\u2019s hospitals in the United States of America, and many Indians had enrolled with Mayo\u2019s educational programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The court concluded that \u201cthe dishonest adoption of the defendants as their trade name as &#8216;MAYO&#8217;, itself is sufficient to come to a prima facie conclusion that, the defendants have dishonestly adopted the trademark of the plaintiff\u201d. It granted a temporary injunction against the defendants\u2019 use of \u00a0MAYO or similar marks. The defendants were also restrained from carrying on business under the name and style of MAYO and passing off their goods and services as those emanating from Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The order marks the first time the intellectual property rights of Mayo Foundation have been recognised by a legal forum in India.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research vs. Manu Kagliwal &amp; Ors; before Aurangabad District Court; order dated 13.7.2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurangabad District Court upholds intellectual property rights of Mayo Foundation, administrator of the world-renowned medical research and practice, Mayo Clinics. Defendants\u2019 use of the \u201ctrade name as &#8216;MAYO&#8217;, itself is sufficient\u201d to conclude dishonest adoption, it holds. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER) is a charitable organisation which manages Mayo Clinics, the world-renowned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[173,135,44,34],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mayo-clinic-updates-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}