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ARTICLE · 18 MAY 2007

Man Of Average Intelligence- Scale For Determining Similarity

It has become a well-settled principle that while adjudicating deceptive similarity of medicinal products, the yardsticks adopted by the Courts are stringent. The Supreme Court of India in Cadila Health Care Ltd. v. Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 1952, laid down the general guidelines that are to be adopted while adjudicating deceptive similarity in medicinal products.

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It has become a well-settled principle that while adjudicating deceptive similarity of medicinal products, the yardsticks adopted by the Courts are stringent. The Supreme Court of India in Cadila Health Care Ltd. v. Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 1952, laid down the general guidelines that are to be adopted while adjudicating deceptive similarity in medicinal products. Guided by the principles set by the Supreme Court, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board [IPAB] under the Indian Trade Mark Laws, in Sami Khatib v. Optho Remedies Pvt. Ltd & Anr. 2007 (34) PTC 357 reiterated the same.

Optho Remedies/Respondent had filed an application for registration of Mark B-Tone in respect of medicinal and pharmaceutical preparation in 1986 and claimed usage since 1977. Upon advertisement of the mark in the Trademarks Journal, Sami Khatiab/Appellants filed opposition and produced a registration certificate for the Mark R.B. Tone registered in 1972. Optho Remedies filed reply evidence

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