{"id":21643,"date":"2024-03-18T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21643"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:07:35","slug":"passing-off-under-trademark-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/passing-off-under-trademark-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2019Passing off\u2019 under Trademark Rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About \u2019Passing off\u2019 under Trademark Rules<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Passing off action basically refers to the\u00a0unauthorised use of goods,\u00a0services, and the goodwill attached to\u00a0another person\u2019s business, which would\u00a0amount to misrepresentation.<\/li>\n<li>The notion of Passing off in the\u00a0Indian Trademarks Act, 1999, seeks to\u00a0safeguard the goodwill associated with unregistered trademarks.<\/li>\n<li>When the trademark has been registered by the owner and infringement happens, then it\u00a0becomes a suit for infringement, but if the trademark has not been registered by the owner and infringement happens, then it becomes a case of passing off.<\/li>\n<li>Passing off is a\u00a0common law tort which\u00a0occurs when a person sells his products as the goods of another, wherein the\u00a0trademark owner can take legal action to remedy this violation.<\/li>\n<li>While passing off is\u00a0not defined under the Indian Trademarks Act 1999,\u00a0Section 27 recognizes the common law rights of a Trademark owner wherein the\u00a0owner can initiate legal proceedings against any person for passing off goods or services as the goods of another person or as services provided by another person.<\/li>\n<li>Passing off\u00a0occurs when there is illegal use of a trademark or trade name in such a way that the\u00a0public is misled into believing that the products or services supplied by one party are genuinely those of another.\n<ul>\n<li>This misrepresentation\u00a0can harm the goodwill and reputation\u00a0of the legitimate\u00a0owner of the trademark.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Establishing passing off can be difficult since claimants must\u00a0demonstrate the possibility of public misunderstanding about the origin of the products or services.<\/li>\n<li>The essential question in passing off cases is whether the defendant\u2019s behavior is such that it causes uncertainty and possibly harms the plaintiff\u2019s goodwill.<\/li>\n<li>Passing off encompasses a larger variety of commercial operations, including\u00a0trade, business, and non-business initiatives, in addition to commodities and services,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a patent?<\/h3>\n<p>A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/delhi-dolma-aunty-momos-trademark-passing-off-9219191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why Delhi\u2019s Dolma Aunty Momos challenged the use of her trade mark, what the law says<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing off action basically refers to the unauthorised use of goods, services, and the goodwill attached to another person\u2019s business, which would amount to misrepresentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}