After a long break over the extended weekend, the Delhi High Court saw some big matters over the three-day week..Here is a recap of the important matters that got listed this past week..Wednesday, September 14.Arguments continue over Whatsapp’s new privacy policy.After the Delhi High Court issued notice in the matter on the last day of August, arguments were heard this week before the bench comprising Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal..The main focus of the arguments from both sides was on the nature of the information that is saved by Whatsapp on their servers. While the petitioners claimed that in accordance with the privacy policy, Whatsapp could save and transfer information related to the user’s phone number, messages, pictures, videos and audio notes, the respondents claimed that the servers saved no information except for the user’s name and phone number. Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra for the respondents further argued that Whatsapp could in fact not access even the messages shared between two users because they were encrypted..The arguments will continue on September 21..Thursday, September 15.Nutri Choice v. Sun Feast : The biscuit battle continues.In an appeal filed by Britannia against an injunction order restrciting it from using a particular colour combination for its biscuit packets, a Division Bench comprising of Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar, JJ. heard arguments on Thursday..Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi, appearing for ITC argued that in a suit for passing off, the bench needs to focus on the similarities between the two products and not the dissimilarities. The arguments were brought to a halt due to paucity of time and will continue on Monday..Friday, September 16.Photocopy: Copyright judgment leaves Delhi University celebrating.In a suit filed by a consortium of international publishers against a photocopy shop at Delhi University, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw held that that there was no copyright infringement when photocopying was for the furtherance of education. The ruling came as a sigh of relief to the students, faculty and most importantly the photocopy services in the campus who were restrained from making these copies since an injunction order passed against them in 2012.
After a long break over the extended weekend, the Delhi High Court saw some big matters over the three-day week..Here is a recap of the important matters that got listed this past week..Wednesday, September 14.Arguments continue over Whatsapp’s new privacy policy.After the Delhi High Court issued notice in the matter on the last day of August, arguments were heard this week before the bench comprising Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal..The main focus of the arguments from both sides was on the nature of the information that is saved by Whatsapp on their servers. While the petitioners claimed that in accordance with the privacy policy, Whatsapp could save and transfer information related to the user’s phone number, messages, pictures, videos and audio notes, the respondents claimed that the servers saved no information except for the user’s name and phone number. Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra for the respondents further argued that Whatsapp could in fact not access even the messages shared between two users because they were encrypted..The arguments will continue on September 21..Thursday, September 15.Nutri Choice v. Sun Feast : The biscuit battle continues.In an appeal filed by Britannia against an injunction order restrciting it from using a particular colour combination for its biscuit packets, a Division Bench comprising of Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar, JJ. heard arguments on Thursday..Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi, appearing for ITC argued that in a suit for passing off, the bench needs to focus on the similarities between the two products and not the dissimilarities. The arguments were brought to a halt due to paucity of time and will continue on Monday..Friday, September 16.Photocopy: Copyright judgment leaves Delhi University celebrating.In a suit filed by a consortium of international publishers against a photocopy shop at Delhi University, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw held that that there was no copyright infringement when photocopying was for the furtherance of education. The ruling came as a sigh of relief to the students, faculty and most importantly the photocopy services in the campus who were restrained from making these copies since an injunction order passed against them in 2012.
