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Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. v. B. Vijaya Sai and Others

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Reported as [2022] 2 S.C.R. 321
Bench L. Nageswara Rao, B. R. Gavai and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 19 January 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the High Court fell in error by interfering with the well-reasoned order of the trial court and so, the present appeal deserves to be allowed.

Judgment, page 42

From the headnote

Trade Marks Act, 1999 – s.29(2)(c) r/w s.29(3); ss.29(4), (5), 29(9), 30 – Infringement of trade mark – Mark ident ical to the registered trade mark and also used in relation to identic al goods/ services – Presumption u/s.29(3) – Appellant filed suit for p ermanent injunction to restrain the respondents from using t he trade mark “SAI RENAISSANCE” or any other trade mark identical with thei r trade mark “RENAISSANCE” used by it for its hospitality business throughout the world since 1981 and in India since 1990 – Respondents restrained inter alia from using the trade mark “SAI RENAISSANCE”

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