{"id":645,"date":"2016-08-16T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=645"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:29:20","slug":"celebrating-trans-border-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/celebrating-trans-border-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Trans-Border Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In a landmark judgment the Delhi High Court accepts Toyota&#8217;s global reputation in PRIUS to have spilled-over sufficiently to India\u00a0making it a well-known mark here too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A seven year-long battle between the Japanese car-maker Toyota and traders of automobile spare parts culminated in a decision, which positions itself as a landmark precedent in trademark law.\u00a0In the judgment spelling success for Toyota, the court held that PRIUS\u2019 global reputation in the world\u2019s first hybrid car had spilled-over to India, so much so that It was a well-known mark. Finding the Defendants&#8217; adoption of PRIUS to be dishonest, it granted reliefs against passing off, Infringement along with damages worth INR 1 million (Rs. 10 lakhs).<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the case\u00a0is particularly\u00a0significant in light of the fact that Toyota did not have Indian for its PRIUS mark, while the defendants\u00a0did. Nevertheless, Toyota pursued claims for passing off of that and other marks.\u00a0In\u00a0the final ruling not only did reputation in an unregistered mark tower over registration,\u00a0but an unregistered mark was found to qualify as a well-known mark.<\/p>\n<p><em>Authored by Pravin Anand, Vaishali Mittal and Siddhant Chamola.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published in Asian Legal Business August 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalbusinessonline.com\/news\/sponsored-celebrating-trans-border-reputation\/72987\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark judgment the Delhi High Court accepts Toyota&#8217;s global reputation in PRIUS to have spilled-over sufficiently to India\u00a0making it a well-known mark here too. A seven year-long battle between the Japanese car-maker Toyota and traders of automobile spare parts culminated in a decision, which positions itself as a landmark precedent in trademark law.\u00a0In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,67,34,68],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}