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- 2024
- 1983
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- deceptive similarity
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- customer of average intelligence and imperfect recollection test
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- identical registrations
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- trademark agent
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- 2023
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- Snapdeal Private Limited v. Godaddycom LLC
- unfair trade practices
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- Cadila Health Care Ltd. vs. Cadia Pharmaceuticals Ltd
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd vs Geoffrey Manners & Co. Pvt. Ltd
- Schering Corporation case
- SUN Pharma v. Hetero
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- Mahindra
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- Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
- 1989
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Raja Selvam
Founder & Managing Attorney, Selvam & Selvam | Practice areas include Trademarks, Patents, Domain names & Business law. Visiting faculty, Department of Journalism, Madras University where I teach copyrights & trademarks law. Passionate about entrepreneurship, start-ups, stocks, farming, technology and law.
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