Delhi High Court rejects Dish TV's trademark claim on "Dish" word in "DD Free Dish"

[Shark]

Full Judgement

 

[Esmail]

It's a good thing such claims get struck down otherwise other companies would get emboldened to do the same. Airtel would raise a trademark claim on 'Air' word in Aircel while it was operational

 

[amty]

rather then improving quality, quantity of channels and improving customer service Dishtv is getting into these stupid antics... it just feels like subash chandra is desperate to get free money from somewhere or the other

 

[Akinator69]

Clown Moment for Dish TV

 

[DreamDTH]

The court’s verdict overturned a previous order issued by a single judge bench in July 2019.

Delhi High Court rejects Dish TV’s claim of exclusive right over term ‘Dish’

 

[Shark]

Fact Check
Many YouTuber including some big DTH youtubers sharing misinformation about this matter. Now an article of "Indian television" is in discussion. India television has a bug that sharing their old articles again after their publishing date. Like this article published on 17 July 20XX. But now again 17 July came again so this article showing again in DD Free dish Google news feed. So don't believe on this type things.

Article:

Dish TV vs Prasar Bharati: DD Free Dish cannot use word 'Dish', says Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted an injunction to direct-to-home (DTH) operator Dish TV (plaintiff) against Prasar Bharati (defendant), preventing the public broadcaster from using the word 'Dish' for its free-to-air DTH platform DD Free Dish. The defendant was handed three months’ time...

indiantelevision.com