JUDGMENT :

Prathiba M. Singh, J.

1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. The present suit has been filed by the Plaintiff - Cable News Network, Inc. which is a company based in USA, involved in the broadcasting/production of an English news channel under the name/mark/ CNN’. The case of the Plaintiff is that the said news channel ‘CNN’ was launched in September, 1985. Since the year 1989, the news channel ‘CNN’ has been available for viewers in India as well. The first New Delhi Bureau of ‘CNN’ was opened in the year 1992 and in June, 1993, a strategic relationship was entered into between ‘CNN’ International and New Delhi Television Pvt. Ltd. (NDTV). As per the plaint, the Plaintiff’s television channel ‘CNN’ was the first private television channel which was allowed to be broadcasted on an Indian Satellite. Further, the mark ‘CNN’ has been protected by the Plaintiff by filing various proceedings. One such proceeding is CS (COMM) 924/2016 titled Cable News Network, Inc. v. Anshu Jain (Anim Desire Private Limited).

3. The Plaintiffs have several trademark registration