New Delhi: Delhi High Court ruled in favor of Oreo in the Oreo-Fabio dispute. The Delhi High Court has restrained Parle Products Pvt Ltd from using the name Fabio/Fab!O for its chocolate biscuits filled with vanilla cream in a trademark infringement case filed by Intercontinental Great Brands for infringing the trademark of Oreo Biscuits.
A single bench of Justice C Harishankar passed the order granting interim protection to Oreo. The court also observed that Parle was required to pronounce fab-o as fa-bee-yo in its advertisements.
The two are apparently similar. The court pointed out that like the name, its contents, form and cover are also identical. The court has banned the use of this trade mark and said that the ban will not apply to the biscuits currently in the market.
In January 2020, Parle launched a range of vanilla cream filled chocolate biscuits called Fab!O. Oreo alleged that Oreo biscuits had already been launched in the market before that. The Oreo company had alleged that Parle’s other ranges of biscuits are using the name Fabio and Fab!O only for this biscuit.
