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Thursday 7 November 2013

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories won the case regarding their Trade mark

The well known, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. has finally won a case pertaining to a trade mark issue with a New Delhi-based firm, Reddy Pharmaceutical Limited. As a result, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has ordered the Registrar of Trademarks to remove the registered trade mark, ‘Reddy’ of the Reddy Pharmaceutical Limited.
The order was passed based on an application filed by Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad which was established in the year 1984 by K. Anji Reddy with a aim to develop and deliver innovative healthcare products. The same year, they adopted “Dr. Reddy’s” as their trademark and have been using it since then. The firm applied for registration in 2001. But, the Registrar of Trade Marks had granted registration with the name “Reddy” to Reddy Pharmaceutical Limited in 2005 for the purpose of ‘medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations’.
In their application before the IPAB, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories requested to remove the mark, ‘Reddy’, as the adoption was dishonest and would cause confusion amongst the consumers. But, to counter the accusations, Reddy Pharmaceutical submitted that the trade mark was chosen after the name of their founder Konda Raghu Rami Reddi and they claimed to have been engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of pharma products since 1996.
Based on the facts, the bench comprising of  S. Usha, Vice-Chairman and V.Ravi, member declared that the adopted mark ‘Reddy’ was an attempt to deceive the consumers. The bench, thus, said that the mark should no longer remain in the register.