The ongoing turmoil within the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (CGPDTM) had long been foreseeable to informed onlookers of the convoluted Indian Intellectual Property (IP) domain. Difficulties varying from administrative inefficiencies to allegations of subjective verdict-making and insufficient personnel had plagued the office for over a decade.
Still, regardless of repeated judicial intercessions and assorted attempts at reform, the Controller General remained stuck in an unending pattern of dysfunction. Tiger Foods Ingredients (P) Ltd v. Registrar of Trademarks, as recently ruled on by the Madras High Court, exemplified this deeply ingrained sickness yet again, shedding light on the intricate issues within the Registry of Trade Marks through its revelation of arbitrary decision-making in the face of administrative absence and over-extension.
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