NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court recorded a settlement between Mars Incorporated and Cadbury (India) Ltd over the use of the mark ‘CELEBRATIONS’, bringing an end to a nearly 25-year-old trademark dispute between the two confectionery giants.
A single-judge Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula, while decreeing the suit, observed that the decades-long contest had finally concluded “not in discord, but in harmony.”
“For nearly twenty-five years, two titans of the confectionery world – Mars and Cadbury – have stood before this Court, locked in contest over the trademark ‘CELEBRATIONS’. Today, that long journey finds its conclusion. The curtains are drawn at last, not in discord, but in harmony, ” observed Justice Narula.