Tuesday, June 22, 2010

India Court asks Hilton to drop brand name

Conrad Hilton may have set up the first Hilton Hotel in 1925, but a Rajasthan court has barred the US hotel group with business in 80 countries from operating in India under that brand, holding that it was deceptively similar to Sirohi-based Hilltone Hotel.

Additional District Judge Narinder Singh Dadda, Sirohi, restrained the international hospitality group from using any kind of "misleading logo and mark" which has potential to cause confusion among the general public and directed it not to carry on the business of hotel and food items under "such duplicate trademark".

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