Trademark infringement: Delhi HC restrains freelance reporter from giving news under ‘Kesari TV’ logo

The Delhi High Court has recently restrained a freelance journalist from using the ‘Kesari TV’ mark, logo and domain name for providing news services in print or in electronic mode, after Hindi language newspaper Punjab Kesari filed a trademark infringement lawsuit.

A single judge bench of C Hari Shankar on February 3 was hearing a petition by the newspaper that stated that it had been using the ‘Kesari TV’ as well as ‘Punjab Kesari TV’ words uninterruptedly since 2014, through the registered domain name http://www.kesari.tv. It claimed that one Ajit Singh Buland who used to work as freelance reporter for the paper,