Trademarks

Trademarks fall under the umbrella of Intellectual Property Rights along with copyrights, patents and geographical indications  A trademark is a sign or a collection of various signs used to distinguish goods and services offered by one company as to same goods and services offered by another company.  Trademarks have tremendous importance as it distinguishes one…

NEED FOR SPEAKING ORDERS

 In a Constitution Bench decision of Hon‘ble Supreme Court in Shri Swamiji of Shri Admar Mutt etc. etc. v. The Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Dept. and Ors., AIR 1980 SC 1, while giving the majority judgment Chief Justice Y.V. Chandrachud referred to Broom‘s Legal Maxims (1939 Edition, page 97) where the principle in…