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IPR Trademark disputes: Delhi HC restrains 4 cos from using `Aji-No-Moto' Our Bureau
Hyderabad , April 1 FOUR Hyderabad-based companies are on the losing side in a trademark row with a Japanese food major, Ajinomoto Co Inc. A Delhi High Court order has restrained Creative Associates & Creative Foods, King Agencies, Balaji Terna Marketing and Bharat Product & Bharat Ghee from selling monosodium glutamate bearing the trademark Aji-No-Moto and the Japanese characters without the company's authorisation. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a food additive used to add taste to food preparations. The Tokyo-based Ajinomoto Co had initiated legal action in January through its counsel in New Delhi. The Delhi High Court Justice Dr M.K. Sharma issued summons to the parties and appointed local commissioners to visit the premises of the defendants to make an inventory of the goods. The local commissioners seized approximately 1,500 packets of MSG bearing the infringed trademarks. According to a press release from the New Delhi-based Anand & Anand, legal counsel for Ajinomoto Co, the trademark Aji-No-Moto has been used by the Japanese company for selling MSG or umami seasoning since 1909. The word Aji-No-Moto (in English and Japanese) has been registered as a trademark in India since 1961. Ajinomoto India Pvt. Ltd, the company authorised by Ajinomoto Co, is the sole authority to use the trademark in India. Aji-No-Moto is a trademark and is not synonymous with the generic name monosodium glutamate or umami seasoning. Therefore, the trademark should not be used while describing or referring to MSG, the release said.
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