{"id":1008165,"date":"2026-05-16T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008165"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:25:21","slug":"supreme-court-gives-flipkart-eight-weeks-to-clear-marq-inventory-in-trademark-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/supreme-court-gives-flipkart-eight-weeks-to-clear-marq-inventory-in-trademark-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court gives Flipkart eight weeks to clear MarQ inventory in trademark dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted e-commerce major Flipkart eight weeks to clear its inventory of MarQ-branded electronic items, while refusing to interfere with earlier orders passed by lower courts and the Delhi High Court in the trademark dispute.<\/p>\n<p>A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that the two marks appeared \u201csubstantially similar\u201d, including in pronunciation and overall commercial impression. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted e-commerce major Flipkart eight weeks to clear its inventory of MarQ-branded electronic items, while refusing to interfere with earlier orders passed by lower courts and the Delhi High Court in the trademark dispute. A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that the two marks appeared \u201csubstantially similar\u201d, including in pronunciation and overall commercial impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}