https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284265 The court rejected the argument that jurisdiction is based on the location of the Registrar's office for trade marks. It clarified that filing a trade mark registration application is not necessary to establish a cause of action for passing off. Registration is crucial in infringement cases but not in passing off suits, where the cause of action is deceit by the defendant. Proximity between locations does not influence jurisdiction; the cause of action determines jurisdiction. en-us Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:27:26 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284265 The court rejected the argument that jurisdiction is based on the location of the Registrar's office for trade marks. It clarified that filing a trade mark registration application is not necessary to establish a cause of action for passing off. Registration is crucial in infringement cases but not in passing off suits, where the cause of action is deceit by the defendant. Proximity between locations does not influence jurisdiction; the cause of action determines jurisdiction. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284265