The Delhi high court has restrained a franchise of schools floated by a group of Delhi Public School (DPS) alumni, including former Union minister Salman Khurshid, from using the name “DPS” saying it
The Delhi high court has restrained a franchise of schools floated by a group of Delhi Public School (DPS) alumni, including former Union minister Salman Khurshid, from using the name “DPS” saying it would amount to trademark infringement of the DPS Society.
Justice V. Kameswar Rao also asked the DPS World Foundation to drop the word from its operation and barred its trustees, members, franchisees and all others acting for and on their behalf, from using the word claimed by the DPS Society.
“The defendants (DPS World Foundation and members), their life trustees, terms trustees, members, franchisees, officers, employees, agents, delegates, representatives, associates and all other acting for and on their behalf, are restrained from offering their services, advertising, offering franchisees, selling goods, and stationery, adopting, using and/ or dealing in any manner with the registered mark/ name ‘DPS’ or any other mark identical or deceptively similar to the registered mark of the plaintiff (DPS Society), amounting to infringement and passing off plaintiff’s registered trademark till the disposal of this suit,” the court said.
