2024 Supreme(Del) 376
PRATHIBA M. SINGH
Hershey Company – Appellant
Versus
Dilip Kumar Bacha, Trading As Shree Ganesh Namkeen – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
Mr. Urfee Roomi, Ms. Apoorva Bharati, Ms. Anuja Chaudhury, Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Mr. Anubhav Chhabra & Ms. Radhika Arora, Advocates, for the Petitioner in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 179 of 2023.
Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, with Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 179 of 2023.
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Kapil Wadhwa, Mr. R. V. Yogesh, Ms. Sindoora VNL, Ms. Vishakha Gupta, Ms Twinkle Rathi, Mr. K. V. Pawan Kumar, Ms. Tejasvini Puri, & Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 179 of 2023.
Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Ms. Sulekha Agarwal, Ms. Soumya Singh, Mr. Saurav Agarwal, Mr. Shantanu Agarwal & Mr. Skanda Shekhar, Advocates, for the Petitioner in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 778/2022 and I.A. 20333/2022.
Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, with Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 778/2022 and I.A. 20333/2022.
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Kapil Wadhwa, Mr. R. V. Yogesh, Ms. Sindoora VNL, Ms. Vishakha Gupta, Ms Twinkle Rathi, Mr. K. V. Pawan Kumar, Ms. Tejasvini Puri, & Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates, for the Respondent.
Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Ms. Sulekha Agarwal, Ms. Soumya Singh, Mr. Saurav Agarwal, Mr. Shantanu Agarwal & Mr. Skanda Shekhar, Advocates, for the Petitioner in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 782/2022 and I.A. 20524/2022.
Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, with Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 782/2022 and I.A. 20524/2022.
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Kapil Wadhwa, Mr. R. V. Yogesh, Ms. Sindoora VNL, Ms. Vishakha Gupta, Ms Twinkle Rathi, Mr. K. V. Pawan Kumar, Ms. Tejasvini Puri, & Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 782/2022 and I.A. 20524/2022.
Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Ms. Sulekha Agarwal, Ms. Soumya Singh, Mr. Saurav Agarwal, Mr. Shantanu Agarwal & Mr. Skanda Shekhar, Advocates, for the Petitioner in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 783/2022.
Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, with Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 783/2022.
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Kapil Wadhwa, Mr. R. V. Yogesh, Ms. Sindoora VNL, Ms. Vishakha Gupta, Ms Twinkle Rathi, Mr. K. V. Pawan Kumar, Ms. Tejasvini Puri, & Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 783/2022.
Mr. Kapil Wadhwa, Ms. Surya Rajappan, Ms. Tejasvini Puri & Ms. Vasanthi Hariharan, Advocates, for the Petitioner in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022.
Mr. Gautam Wadhwa, Advocate for R-1 in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022.
Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, with Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022.
Mr. Alankar Kirpekar and Mr. Arun C Mohan, Amicus Curiae in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022
Mr. Vaibhav Vutts, Mr. Aditya Gupta and Mr. Nikhil Sharma, Advocates, for the Respondent in C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022.
| Table of Content |
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| 1. jurisdiction of high court in rectification petitions. (Para 1 , 2 , 3) |
| 2. court's view on the legislative intent and implications. (Para 7 , 9 , 30) |
| 3. parties' differing views on jurisdiction criteria. (Para 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17) |
| 4. call for larger bench regarding jurisdictional matters. (Para 50 , 51 , 52 , 53) |
JUDGMENT
Prathiba M. Singh, J.
Background
1. The present batch of matters highlight a significant issue that has come to the attention of this Court concerning its jurisdiction to consider rectification/cancellation petitions under Section 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (hereinafter `the 1999 Act'), following the enactment of the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021.
2. In the present batch, there are a total of five rectification petitions filed under Section 57 of the 1999 Act:
- C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 151/2022,
- C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 778/2022,
- C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 782/2022,
- C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 783/2022,
- C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM) 179/2023
3. A brief background of the petitions is captured as follows:
| | C.O. (COMM.IPD-TM)-151/2022:
Liberty Footwear Co. v. Liberty Industrial Group Pte Ltd. | Impugned mark | `LIBERTY STEEL' (device mark)
TM Application No. 3559438 dated 29th May, 2017
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