REAL ESTATE FIRM GETS RIGHT TO NAME

The Delhi high court dismissed the petition of a US company seeking injunction against a Gurgaon real estate company which have similar names in the case, Century 21 Real Estate LLC vs Century 21 Main Realty Pvt. Ltd. The high court remarked there was no balance of convenience in favour of the US firm to grant injunction. It was not a case where the US firm was going to suffer any irreparable loss or injury. It has no business in India and it has no office in India. Except making an application for registration of trade mark and keeping trademark registered so as to block the trademark, it had done no work in India. “Blocking of trademark and blocking of trade name are not
looked upon kindly by the courts. It has become a practice to block important domain names, important trade names so that others cannot use it despite the fact that the person himself may not use it, the high court said.