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Bengal Chemicals And Pharmaceuticals
Dispute Summary
The dispute concerned whether medicines manufactured by Bengal Chemicals And Pharmaceuticals, which bore the registered trade mark 'Bengal Chemicals' on their caps, should be classified as 'Patent or Proprietary Medicines' under the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944. The Tribunal held that merely having a registered trademark is not sufficient; the mark must indicate a proprietary interest in the medicine, especially when the medicines are already specified in pharmacopoeia.
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