To protect its intellectual property (IP) and rights, the company approached the District Court, Karnal, which upheld its rights on 23 September 2025
On grounds of trademark violation, Piccadily Agro Industries has secured an interim court injunction restraining Radico Khaitan from using the brand name ‘Kashmyr’ for its recently introduced vodka, as per a stock filing.
To protect its intellectual property (IP) and rights, the company approached the District Court, Karnal, which upheld its rights on 23 September 2025, under order 39 rule 1 and 2 CPC and granted an interim injunction.
“District Court, Karnal granted an interim injunction restraining Radico Khaitan and its affiliates from manufacturing, selling, advertising, promoting, or otherwise using the mark Kashmyr (in isolation or with any prefix/suffix/variant) or any other deceptively similar mark to our registered trademarks “Cashmir/Cashmere,” until final adjudication of the matter,” the company noted in an exchange filing.
Piccadilly Agro Industries had registered the trademark Cashmere in 2015 for a luxury vodka product and subsequently secured registrations in overseas territories. In 2023, the company also registered the trademark Cashmir with a slight change in spelling. On 23 May 2025, the company introduced its first luxury vodka under the brand Cashmir.
“The defendant( Radico Khaitan), its subsidiaries, principal officers, assignees, directors, servants and agents and all other persons claiming under the defendant is hereby restrained from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, advertising and/ or promoting and/or using the mark “Kashmyr” in isolation and/ or inconjunction with any other prefix/suffix and/or any other mark, name, label, device that is deceptively similar/ infringing to the plaintiff’s Trademarks “Cashmir”, “Cashmere” and/or their variants,” the court said.
Following Piccadily’s unveiling, on 28 of July 2025, Radico Khaitan introduced a vodka under the brand Kashmyr, in the same category at a similar price point, which is phonetically similar to the company’s registered marks and likely to cause consumer confusion.
