The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 13th September 2024 released the draft Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Rules, 2024, (“Draft Amendment Rules”) under the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and...

On hearing the petition filed by two Catholic nuns Sr Josia and Sr Mary KG(“Petitioners”), the Kerala High Court has issued stay for two weeks for the certification granted to Malayalam Film 'Aquarium'. Read Order here. Film 'Aquarium' is starring Arjun Sunny Wayne, V K Prakash, Sabu Cyril, Honey Rose,...

In a plea filed by Sporta Technologies Private Limited's (“Plaintiff”) , the Delhi High Court vide its order dated September 2, 2020 restrained defendants ‘Dream 11 team’  (“Defendant”) from using the logo or any other trademark, which are "deceptively similar" to that of the Sporta Technologies Private Limited's trademarks...

Writer-Director Mr. Anees Bazmee (“Plaintiff”), moved the Bombay High Court against Panorama Studio Pvt. Ltd, T Series, Hotstar amongst others for recovery of a sum of INR.1,08,00,000/- towards his dues for his services rendered as the writer and director of the film  “PagalPanti’ (Film) produced by Panorama Studio Pvt...

In the recent case of  GUJARAT COOPERATIVE MILK MARKETING FEDERATION LTD. & ANR. vs AMUL FRANCHISE.IN & ORS., the Delhi High Court granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favor of AMUL, restraining the fraudulent websites which used AMUL in their prefix and suffix and caused confusion in the minds...

The Bombay High Court on 4th May had passed an order directing Eros Media to pay a sum of Rs.19,39,241/- to Bhansali Productions Pvt. Ltd. which had approached the court seeking urgent ad-interim reliefs restraining Eros International Media Ltd. & Ors. from in any manner directly or indirectly dealing...

A suit was filed by Hindustan Unilever  to block access to fraudulent websites operating with variants of the Applicants domain name. The suit was filed against the domain name registrars such as Endurance Domains, GoDaddy, Porkbun and certain unknown persons. One of the defendants was National Internet Exchange of...

Amitabh Bachchan Starer Jhund is facing trouble as a law suit has been filed for stalling its release. The case has been filed in a civil court of Additional District Judge Ranga Reddy at Miyapur, Telangana and is set to be heard on 28th May. The movie which was...

Yash Raj Films Pvt Ltd (YRF) has moved the Bombay High Court against IPRS in relation to the royalties dispute. YRF has sought to quash a criminal case of breach of trust, copyright infringement and failure to pay Rs 100 crore in royalty to several music composers and lyricists...

In our earlier post here, we covered how the Hon’ble Court granted an ad-interim injunction in favour of the Phonographic Performance Ltd. with respect to the unlicensed exploitation of songs from its repertoire during the celebrations of Christmas and new years. Similarly, the Indian Performing Rights Society on 19th December,...