The Delhi High Court has ordered Amazon, Flipkart, and other e-commerce platforms to remove product listings that infringe on the “Reliance” and “Jio” trademarks. Passing a dynamic injunction, the Court observed that such representations could confuse consumers or lead them to falsely believe that Reliance and Jio are selling those products. The development was first
Justice Saurabh Banerjee passed an interim order on July 10 and restrained the alleged infringers from manufacturing, selling or advertising the products with Reliance and Jio trademarks. The Court said that they cannot use Reliance’s artistic work because the infringing trademarks are portraying a picture that the products have been manufactured by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). “Moreover,
Within hours of India’s missile retaliation on terror camps in Pakistan, six trademark applications were filed for the codename “Operation Sindoor” — including one by Reliance Industries, which later called its move an inadvertent error. The filings hint at a race to commercially capitalise on the Indian Army’s military action, even as legal and ethical