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ANI, the news agency, sued Open AI alleging two distinct forms of copyright infringement. The training claim is that Open AI scraped and stored ANI's news articles to train the LLMs that power ChatGPT, and that the output or reproduction claim that ChatGPT generates responses to users that reproduce ANI's copyrighted content. Background ANI sought an interim injunction under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 CPC. Six intervenors joined the case. The Federation of Indian Publishers, the Digital News Publishers Association, and the Indian Music Industry supported ANI. Flux AI Labs, IGAP Project LLP, and the Broadband India Forum supported Open AI. Two amici curiae, Adarsh Ramanujan and Professor Arul George Scaria, assisted the court. Hearings ran from February 2025 through March 2026, spread across roughly twenty dates. Issues Framed by the Court The court framed four issues on 19 November 2024. Does storage of ANI's data for training ChatGPT infringe ...

On 13 July 2026, the Delhi High Court had to decide whether a Swiss footwear group could sell sneakers under a lower-case 'n' followed by a colon, and still say it wasn't trying to look like New Balance. Justice Jyoti Singh's answer, at the interim stage, was a qualified no. The judgment is a useful read for anyone advising on letter marks, logo variants, or the recurring question of whether a registered trademark can still be restrained through a passing off action. Here's a breakdown of the facts, the arguments, and the reasoning. Background: N-marks vs. n:marks New Balance Athletics Inc., the US footwear company tracing its history to the 1906 New Balance Arch Support Company, sued Astormueller AG (a Swiss corporation) and its two Indian subsidiaries over their NUBEAT sneaker line. New Balance's case rested on its family of "N-marks": the classic diagonal N device (registered in India since 1987), the shaded N logo (registered in Classes 18 and ...