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12,867 judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts that decide questions under the Trade Marks, Patents, Copyright, Designs and Geographical Indications statutes, 1951 to 2025. Search the full text with as many keywords as you like, then narrow by legal issue, court, proceeding, outcome, bench, industry, statute or judge.
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- Filters by issue, court, proceeding, bench, industry and statute
- Relevant paragraphs and the court's own PDF for every result
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Source
Judgment text from Open India Law by Vaquill AI, snapshot v2026.08.1, licensed CC BY 4.0. The underlying judgments are government works reproduced under section 52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act.
Selection and tagging
A judgment is included when any part of its text engages an IP statute, doctrine or authority, or when it carries an IP Division registry number. Legal issues, industries and statutes are detected from the text by fixed rules, and proceeding type from the registry number. No machine learning is involved, so every tag can be traced to the words that triggered it. Madras High Court, Delhi High Court, Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court, Karnataka High Court, Supreme Court of India.
Read, then verify
Every result can show the paragraphs most relevant to your keywords and selected issues, or the whole judgment as extracted. 12,817 entries link to the court's own PDF, mirrored on the AWS Open Data Registry from the eCourts and Supreme Court portals. Check the PDF before citing. Index regenerated 2026-10-16.