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Today, several generic terms that we use, such as ‘escalator,’ ‘xerox,’ ‘cellophane,’ sound common but were once protected as trademarks. Interestingly, in these cases, the trademark owner itself/himself misused the trademark as the generic name of the product in advertising and Patent Applications.
Applying Section 34 on Prior Use Decided on a similar factual matrix in Syed Ghaziuddin v PepsiCo (2019), a Hyderabad court noted that while PepsiCo secured trademark registration for manufacturing soft drinks back in 1985, it did not initiate such activity until 2003. Relying on Syed Mohideen v P.
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