Levi Strauss secured a win in India in late December, after a Delhi court ordered two defendants to pay the jeans manufacturer damages for counterfeiting. Additional District Judge Anil Antil ordered the defendants, who were running their businesses in Delhi and Bihar, to pay Levi Strauss punitive and compensatory damages of Rs 50,000 ($787) each. Levi Strauss owns numerous trademarks across the globe, including the mark ‘Levi’s’ and its two horse logo. The defendants manufacture and sell clothing and, according to the court, have counterfeited Levi Strauss’s marks. Antil added that the marks being used by the defendants are deceptively similar to Levi Strauss’s marks “in each and every respect” including phonetically, visually and structurally. The court went on to say that the defendants have also copied the artistic features in the plaintiff’s trademark, thereby infringing Levi Strauss’s copyright in the mark.

Source: WIPR