Tata group’s Mount Everest has lost a trademark dispute against Bisleri. The dispute was over Tata’s trademark, Himalayan. The dispute began when Mount Everest filed a Trademark infringement suit against Bisleri before the Delhi High Court in 2008. The suit was filed for using the words 'from the Himalayas' on bottles of its packaged natural mineral water brand Bisleri. Subsequently, Bisleri had moved the Intellectual Property Appellate Board to remove the registration of the trade marks Himalaya. Bisleri had argued that Himalaya was a word with geographical origin and cannot be registered as a Trademark under sec 9 of the Trademarks Act. Deciding over the matter, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board held that the registration of the word 'Himalayan' does not give exclusive rights to any company to use the term as a trademark for its products.
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