{"id":910365,"date":"2025-03-01T08:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910365"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:18:09","slug":"why-delhi-hc-order-on-bhpc-trade-mark-sets-a-significant-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/01\/why-delhi-hc-order-on-bhpc-trade-mark-sets-a-significant-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Delhi HC order on BHPC trade mark sets a significant precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual property (IP) protection has long been a concern in India, primarily due to a lack of awareness and abuse by unscrupulous businesses. The Thursday ruling by the Delhi High Court in favor of Lifestyle Equities, the brand owner of &#8220;Beverly Hills Polo Club&#8221; (BHPC), has set a significant precedent. The court ordered Amazon to pay \u20b9340 crore (approximately $39 million) in damages for willful trademark infringement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual property (IP) protection has long been a concern in India, primarily due to a lack of awareness and abuse by unscrupulous businesses. The Thursday ruling by the Delhi High Court in favor of Lifestyle Equities, the brand owner of &#8220;Beverly Hills Polo Club&#8221; (BHPC), has set a significant precedent. The court ordered Amazon to pay \u20b9340 crore (approximately $39 million) in damages for willful trademark infringement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910365","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}