Madras High Court Dismisses Chennai Firm's Plea To Revoke Food Processor Patent Of Dutch Appliance Company

The Madras High Court has dismissed a patent revocation plea filed by Maya Appliances Private Limited, a Chennai-based company, seeking to revoke a food processor patent held by Versuni Holding B.V., a Netherlands-based home appliances company. In an order passed on December 19, 2025, Justice N. Senthilkumar allowed Versuni's application seeking rejection of the revocation proceedings, holding that the challenge was not maintainable since the very same issue had already been raised in a pending...

Madras High Court Refuses To Restrain Celebrity Stylist Joy Crizilda From Making Social Media Posts Against Chef Madhampatty Rangaraj

The Madras High Court has refused to grant an interim injunction in favour of celebrity chef Madhampatty Rangaraj restraining celebrity stylist Joy Crizildaa from making social media posts against the former. Justice N Sentilkumar noted that there could not be a blanket order restricting a person from exercising their right to express their views. The court noted that if Rangaraj wanted to restrain posts against him, he had to establish that there was commercial exploitation of his...

Permit Only 300 Shops In Marina: Madras High Court Tells GCC, Says Allotment Must Be Through Draw Of Lots Under Supervision Of Retd Judge

The Madras High Court, on Thursday, directed the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to permit only 300 shops at Marina Beach in Chennai. The bench of Justice R Suresh Kumar and Justice AD Jagadish Chandira said that the shops would be selling three categories of items – (i) Eatables, (ii) Toys and related goods, and (iii) Fancy goods or souvenirs. The bench added that 100 shops could be allotted to each category, but also gave liberty to the GCC to make alterations in the number of...

TN Police Move Madras High Court To Quash Interim Bail Granted To Savukku Shankar In Extortion Case, Argue That He Misused Liberty

The Tamil Nadu police have approached the Madras High Court seeking to cancel the interim bail granted to YouTuber and journalist A. Shankar, alias Savukku Shankar, by a vacation court in December 2025 in connection with an extortion case. When the matter came up before a bench of Justice P Velmurugan and Justice M Jothiraman on Thursday, the bench directed Shankar's side to file their counters and decided to take up the case post the Pongal holidays on January 19. It may be noted...

Madras High Court Orders Removal Of Wipro's 'PREMIO' Trademark On Crompton Greaves Plea

The Madras High Court has ordered the removal of the “PREMIO” trademark registered in favour of Wipro Enterprises Private Limited. The Court found that the mark had not been put to genuine commercial use for more than five years. Justice N Senthilkumar passed the order on December 16, 2025. He allowed a rectification plea filed by Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited, a Mumbai-based consumer electricals manufacturer.The court held that the disputed mark was liable to be removed from...

Madras High Court Upholds Arbitral Award Granting Relief To 93 Chennai Port Spillage Workers

The Madras High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition filed by the Chennai Port Authority, refusing to set aside an arbitral award that directed the port to reinstate spillage-handling workers and grant back wages, gratuity and other service benefits to 93 workers. A single bench of Justice N Anand Venkatesh held that the award did not suffer from any jurisdictional error or patent...

Income Tax | Manual Returns Invalid After E-Filing Became Mandatory For Companies on May 14, 2007: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has held that from May 14, 2007, companies had to file their income tax returns electronically, and that paper returns filed after that date carry no legal validity A bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and Mummineni Sudheer Kumar rejected a claim for deduction under Section 80-IC of the Income Tax Act, holding that electronic filing of returns was a mandatory requirement...

Madras High Court Annual Digest 2025: Part II [Citations 251 - 501]

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 251 to 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 501 NOMINAL INDEX P. Ganga Parameshwaran vs. The Government of Tamil Nadu & Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 251 Palai Rafi @ Mohamed Rafi v. The State, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 252 T Prabhakar v. Mr. Dheeraj Kumar and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 253 Vanaraj and Others v. The State, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 254 Muniraj v The State...

Madras High Court Directs Setting Up Of District Level Monitoring Committees To Ensure Orderly System Is Abolished

The Madras High Court on Wednesday (January 07) directed the Tamil Nadu Home Secretary to constitute district-level monitoring committees to ensure that the orderly system is completely abolished in the state. The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice C Kumarappan directed the committee to be formulated within 2 weeks. The committee shall be headed by the respective...

Madras High Court Allows US Inventor's Late Patent Examination Request Despite Indian Agent's Error

The Madras High Court has directed the Indian Patent Office to accept and process a request for examination filed by a US-based inventor, holding that a patent application cannot be treated as abandoned due to an inadvertent mistake by a patent agent. The court ruled that in the absence of any intention to give up the invention, such procedural lapses should not defeat...

Madras High Court Quashes CESTAT Chennai Order For Deciding Issues Not Under Appeal

The Madras High Court has pulled up the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Chennai for overstepping its mandate, quashing its order and holding that the Tribunal cannot decide issues that were never appealed before it. A Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and K. Govindarajan Thilakavadi said that although Section 129-B of the Customs Act, 1962 confers wide powers on the...

"Producers Not Notified For Review Of Film": Madras High Court Questions CBFC Over Non-Certification Of Jana Nayagan Film, Reserves Order

The Madras High Court on Tuesday reserved orders on a plea filed by producers of the upcoming Tamil movie "Jana Nayagan" starring Vijay, over the non-issuance of the CBFC certificate.While reserving the orders, the court questioned the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on its decision to reopen the certification process of the Tamil film JanaNayagan, observing that the entire exercise...