MR. AKASH ARORA TRADING AS M/S GRAND CHEMICAL WORKS vs RECKITT AND COLMAN OVERSEAS) HYGIENE HOME LIMITED & ORS.

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$~26 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 21.04.2026 + FAO(OS) (COMM) 88/2026 CM APPL. 22574-75/2026 MR. AKASH ARORA TRADING AS M/S GRAND CHEMICAL WORKS ...... Appellant Through: Mr. Darpan Wadhwa, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Sudeep Chatterjee, Mr. Rohan Swarup, Ms. Tanya Arora, Mr. Rajit Ghosh, Ms. Aastha Verma, Mr. Shitanshu Abhishek, Advs. versus RECKITT AND COLMAN OVERSEAS) HYGIENE HOME LIMITED & ORS. ..... Respondents Through: Mr. Chander M Lall, Sr. Adv. with Ms. Nancy Roy, Ms. Prakriti Varshney and Mr Prashant, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J. (ORAL) FAO(OS) (COMM) 88/2026 and CM APPL. 22574/2026 1. The present appeal has been filed against the judgment dated 28.03.2026 passed by the learned Single Judge in I.A. No. 46336/2024 filed in CS (COMM) No. 1052/2024, whereby the Respondent’s (i.e. plaintiff’s) application for interim injunction has been allowed and the Appellant (i.e., defendant) has been restrained from using the impugned trade dresses for its Signature Not Verified Signed By:HEMANT FAO(OS) (COMM) 88/2026 Page 1 of 12 PRATAP SINGH Signing Date:21.04.2026 21:32 product ‘Glass cleaner- , Toilet Cleaner- and Disinfectant- ’. 2. In this order we are considering a limited prayer of the Appellant seeking leave to exhaust its packaged stock and unpackaged stock bearing impugned trade dresses only for its two products (i) Toilet Cleaner; and (ii) Glass Cleaner, under its trademark ‘GAINDA’. The Appellant has clarified that it is not seeking any relief qua the trade dress of Surface Cleaner/ , which has also been injuncted. 3. The Appellant has filed an affidavit dated 10.04.2026 furnishing details of the batch numbers of the packaged stock of Toilet Cle