PepsiCo vs MSM hearing postponed to 3 March

Starts 3rd October

Vanita Keswani

Madison Media Sigma

Poulomi Roy

Joy Personal Care

Hema Malik

IPG Mediabrands

Anita Kotwani

Dentsu Media

Archana Aggarwal

Ex-Airtel

Anjali Madan

Mondelez India

Anupriya Acharya

Publicis Groupe

Suhasini Haidar

The Hindu

Sheran Mehra

Tata Digital

Rathi Gangappa

Starcom India

Mayanti Langer Binny

Sports Prensented

Swati Rathi

Godrej Appliances

Anisha Iyer

OMD India

PepsiCo vs MSM hearing postponed to 3 March

MUMBAI: The hearing for the PepsiCo dispute with MSM Motion Pictures and Vashu Bhagnani-owned Pooja Pictures over the title of the film, Youngsitaan, has been postponed to 3 March.

 

The matter was scheduled to be heard on 24 February in the court of Justice A K Pathak. But with Justice Pathak on leave, the matter has been pushed by a week.

 

PepsiCo alleged that its registered trademark ‘Youngistaan’ has been violated by the co-producers of the film as they chose to go ahead with ‘Youngistaan’ as the film’s title.

 

Singh&Singh, a law firm representing PepsiCo, last month sent a legal notice to the co-producers of the film against the use of the title.

 

But the film that stars Jackky Bhagnani, Neha Sharma, Boman Irani and late Farooq Sheikh was announced on 6 February.

 

Pepsi has pleaded for an order from the high court “restraining them (the co-producers of the film) from launching their movie under the impugned title 'Youngistaan' which is nothing but a blatant imitation of the plaintiff's (Pepsi) registered trademark”.