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Fraud Not Necessary Element for Passing Off if Defendant Has Adopted Plaintiff’s Trademark: SC - (24 Sep 2018)

Supreme Court has observed that though passing off is an action based on deceit but fraud is not a necessary element of a right of action, if otherwise the defendant has imitated or adopted the plaintiff’s mark.

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