4+ day, 16+ min ago  (489+ words) 20 Jun 2026 12: 42 PM IST The Delhi High Court has directed cancellation of the registered trademark 'D-TAN' held by Visage Beauty and Health Care Pvt Ltd, ruling that the mark is descriptive of skin tan removal products and lacks the distinctiveness required…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (626+ words) 19 Jun 2026 6: 35 PM IST The Bombay High Court has held that, for the purpose of excluding a period while computing limitation, it is not necessary that the limitation period should have commenced or expired during the period sought to be excluded....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (395+ words) 19 Jun 2026 5: 06 PM IST The Supreme Court has stayed the Delhi High Court's December 2025 judgment that upheld a trial court's finding of trademark infringement against Kirit Bhadiadra in a dispute over the mark "Medilice." A Bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (404+ words) 19 Jun 2026 5: 13 PM IST The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Chennai, granted relief to Indian Bank and held that where transactions are duly recorded in statutory books, and there is no evidence of suppression or intent to evade…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (434+ words) On 18 June, the Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) held that refund of excess excise duty cannot be denied merely because invoices did not mention batch numbers, where the taxpayer establishes correlation through batch-costing records…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (652+ words) 19 Jun 2026 2: 01 PM IST On 18 June, the Bombay High Court held that dissenting members of a co-operative housing society cannot stall an approved redevelopment project by refusing to execute consent declarations required under a redevelopment agreement, observing that the collective will…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (434+ words) 19 Jun 2026 3: 15 PM IST The Telangana High Court has held that a statutory notice issued in the name of a non-existing entity is a nullity and vitiates the entire arbitral process. The court made the observation while setting aside an arbitral…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (495+ words) 19 Jun 2026 3: 43 PM IST The Bombay High Court on 8 June held that an arbitral award becomes patently illegal when the tribunal relies on material not disclosed to a party or taken from external sources without granting an opportunity to respond. Justice…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (408+ words) 19 Jun 2026 5: 22 PM IST On 18 June, the Calcutta High Court held that pecuniary jurisdiction alone cannot confer jurisdiction under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, in the absence of territorial jurisdiction, reiterating that both conditions must coexist for a court…...

5+ day, 17+ min ago  (711+ words) 19 Jun 2026 12: 41 PM IST The Gujarat High Court has recently held that reassessment proceedings based on survey material are not excluded from the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024. The court observed that the revenue cannot import a restriction that does…...