Hyderabad based MagFast Beverages has won the battle against
beverages MNC, Pepsico to use the trademark, 'Mountain Dew'
Hyderabad based
MagFast Beverages has won the battle against beverages MNC, Pepsico to use the
trademark, 'Mountain Dew'.
Magfast
Beverages Chairman Syed Ghaziuddin on Monday said that they started selling
packaged drinking water named 'Mountain Dew in the year 2000.
"In 2000, I
started a company to sell water to the people of Hyderabad as well as India.
And that is when I started my idea into work as 'Mountain Dew" for my
packed drinking water. Due to the quality of the product, this brand name has
reached national recognition."
"By 2003, the
PepsiCo
company of USA launched its soft drink product in India under the name
'Mountain Dew'. So, the PepsiCo started investigating and searching for water
packages with the same name. The PepsiCo company filed a suit against our
company in Delhi High court for infringement of their alleged trademark. But
the Delhi High court refused their appeal and appointed an advocate
commissioner. All my documents have been checked thoroughly by the advocate
commissioner for the authenticity of the product," he added.
Ghaziuddin said
that he appealed the Supreme court to transfer the case to Hyderabad city civil
court as he belongs to this jurisdiction and not the Delhi jurisdiction and so
the case has been transferred so.
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