New Delhi: The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a plea challenging the order of the Madras High Court’s division Bench which stayed the single bench’s order restraining Patanjali Ayurveda from using the trademark ‘Coronil’.
A three-judge bench of CJI S.A. Bobde, Justice A.S. Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramaniun gave liberty to the petitioner, Arudra Engineers, to pursue the case before the Madras High Court and withdraw the case from the apex court.
According to the petitioner firm, it owns the trademark ‘Coronil’ since 1993 and has ‘CORONIL-92 B’ as its registered trademark.
During the hearing today CJI Bobde stated that if the use of word “Coronil” is prevented on the ground that there is some pesticide in that name, it will be terrible for the first product.
A single bench of the Madras High Court, comprising of Justice CV Karthikeyan, had issued an order on August 6 restricting the use trademark ‘Coronil’ by Patanjali Ayurveda and the Divya Yog Mandir Trust as it was exploiting the public’s fear towards Covid-19 by saying that they could cure it. When Patanjali and the Divya Yog Mandir Trust filed an appeal against that order, a division bench of the court ordered an interim stay on the single bench order.
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The firm Arudra engineers challenged this order before the Supreme Court in the present petition.
The case is listed for hearing before the High Court on September 3.
– India Legal Bureau