{"id":178996,"date":"2025-09-30T02:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:41:09","slug":"no-sale-of-red-black-pocket-edition-of-constitution-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178996\/","title":{"rendered":"No sale of red-&#038;-black pocket edition of Constitution: Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered an interim stay on Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd\u2019s red-and-black, coat-pocket edition of the Constitution of India after finding it \u201cprima facie\u201d similar to an existing pocket edition published by Eastern Book Company (EBC).<\/p>\n<p>Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora granted the injunction in a suit filed by the EBC, finding that the overall presentation of Rupa\u2019s book risked creating confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The HC said the two pocket editions share many design elements, including a near-identical colour scheme, the same text style and font, gilt edging, the book\u2019s posteen colour, and embossed gold detailing, and noted both firms sell to the same segment through overlapping trade channels. <\/p>\n<p>Such close resemblance makes it \u201cprima facie evident\u201d that Rupa\u2019s trade dress or design is \u201cdeceptively similar\u201d to that of EBC, the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>The EBC supported its claim with a tabular comparison, which the court said demonstrated Rupa had reproduced the layout of the EBC\u2019s product with little or no independent creativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered an interim stay on Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd\u2019s red-and-black,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,115418,134,115417],"class_list":["post-178996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-constitution-sales","tag-entertainment","tag-indian-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}