Priority of trademark application vis-a-vis prior use
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Summary
Trademark law protects marks that identify the uniqueness of goods or services. A trademark helps consumers recognise that a particular product comes from a particular business. In India, trademarks are governed mainly by the Trade Marks Act, 1999. One of the most important questions in trademark disputes is: who has the better right over a mark - the person who applied first or the person who used the mark first in the market?This issue was recently discussed in the matter of Parle Products Pri