Fill in the following details to e-mail
To
Cc
Subject
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head> <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <br /> High Court of Madras <br /><br /> Medicinal products should be clearly distinguishable<br /><br /> MANU/TN/0970/2016 - (03 Jun 2016)<br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited v. Cadila Healthcare Ltd. and ors.</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>Public interest supports a lesser degree of proof showing confusing similarity in trade mark, even if two medicinal products are not identical or of the same chemical nature.<BR><BR> The petition, brought by Sun Pharmaceuticals, sought injunction against Cadila Healthcare’s use of the mark, ‘Venz’, which it claimed to be phonetically, visually and structurally similar to ‘Veniz’.<BR><BR> Sun Pharmaceuticals registered ‘Veniz’ for use medicines used in the treatment of depressive and psychotic disorders, in 2000. However, registration was limited solely to that word, and Sun was prevented from exclusive use of the word and any suffixes. <BR><BR> Granting injunction against Cadila’s use of ‘Venz' and similar marks, the court noted “drugs are poisons, not sweets”, and confusion between medicinal products would be life threatening. It added, “the frailty of human nature and the pressures placed by society on doctors, there should be as many clear indicators as possible to distinguish two medicinal products.”</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Relevant : Beiersdorf A.G. vs. Ajay Sukhwani and Anr. <manuid>MANU/DE/1631/2008</manuid> Cadila Health Care Ltd. vs. Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. <manuid>MANU/SC/0199/2001</manuid> Living Media India Ltd. & Anr. vs. M. Hussain & Ors. <manuid>MANU/DE/2306/2013</manuid></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : pharmaceutical, trade mark, confusing similarity, drug names</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <!--<td><strong>Source : <a target="_new" href="http://www.manupatrafast.com/">newsroom.manupatra.com</a></strong></td>--> <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>