Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted an interim injunction in favour of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), restraining certain parties from using its registered ‘JIO’ trademark for taxi services being offered under the domain name www.jiocabs.com.

Prima Facie Case Established

Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, on Tuesday, granted the interim protection observing that Reliance had established a strong prima facie case and that continued use of the well-known brand by unauthorised parties could cause serious harm to its goodwill.

“The continued usage of a well-known and protected brand name would indeed cause grave injury,” the court said, adding that “considering the mending of ways by the Defendants, even the balance of convenience would be in favour of grant of the ad-interim relief.

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