Comments on: Big Bazaar vs. Big Bazar – What’s in a name?

By: swapnil

swapnil — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:07 +0000

i am surprised 2 know dat even d company like reliance can do dis cheap activity…….looks like anil sahab dont want 2 try innovations like his father did….

By: ganesh

ganesh — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:21:38 +0000

What is wrong in it ? I thought there already is a spelling mistake, and that is enough to take reliance through all the legalities.

By: Beeba

Beeba — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:29:34 +0000

Yusuf,

Maybe you can come up with a comprehensive list of what should be allowed then. Some reading up on the legal angles would be good first.

By: Yusuf

Yusuf — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:33:30 +0000

What’s wrong? In fact, words like bazar or bazzar should not be allowed to trademarked.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:18:49 +0000

Well what else can one expect from Reliance? Be it Mukesh or Anil.

By: mGuru

mGuru — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:29:10 +0000

This was not expected from such a huge company like Reliance. If they wanted to retain the BIG prefix, there were numerous names available.

By: RetailMantra

RetailMantra — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:16:52 +0000

R-ADAG has a non-compete agreement with Reliance Retail. Mukesh has clearly
said that they will explore online / tele / other modes of retailing. Did they exclude other modes in of retailing in the NCA that R-ADAG is ready to jump in ?

By: Beeba

Beeba — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:19:05 +0000

Totally bad behavior by the Brothers Ambani. There is no way they should be allowed to get away with this kind of nonsense. I hope the courts teach them a lesson. I’d also be very curious to see who the lawyers were who filed this application for Reliance. (Have they or their families or staff ever shopped or driven, walked by a Big Bazaar?) They should also be held accountable for such frivolous filings.

Puneet, your suggestion is good but it won’t prevent such issues much less close any loopholes. In English, people choose “kute” names all the time, e.g. “Kabab Korner” Unless you are suggesting a ban on Kreativity:)

By: Puneet

Puneet — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:53:12 +0000

Interesting. I guess India should have system of trademarking in Hindi. That will prevent such issues and close the loophole of different spelling for Hindi/other Indian languages words in English.

By: Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:48:01 +0000

This is tricky – both can claim the right on the trademark

Reliance’s claim
BIG is the Trademark of Reliance
Bazaar is a generic word and notone can claim a right on generic words

Big Bazaar’s claim

Big Bazaar though is a generic word, since they are using the same over a long period of time, they can claim the mark under Honest Concurrent User

Big Bazaar also can raise an argument that the whole of their mark is used by Reliance in their name

End Result – they will get into a tricky battle but Big Bazar has an upper hand since they started using it first and the reliance Trademark is very confusingly and deceptively similar to theirs.

By: kartik Puttaiah

kartik Puttaiah — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:33:27 +0000

I am also a common guy (read engineer) who is into patent consulting

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:11:34 +0000

Thanks Kartik! Now you know the diff between ‘common’ vs. legal guys!

By: kartik Puttaiah

kartik Puttaiah — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:09:03 +0000

@Ashish
small correction to be made in the below sentence

“Reliance has been granted the patent to use ‘“Reliance Big Bazar”

A patent is granted only for inventions, and reliance might have got trademark registered for “Reliance Big Bazar”

Regards,
Kartik