India, Oct. 10 -- The Bombay High Court has temporarily restrained two taxi operators in Delhi and Dehradun from using the brand name JioCabs or any other name similar to JIO, a trademark owned by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).

In an interim order passed on October 7, the court observed that the Mumbai-headquartered conglomerate has made out a strong, prima facie case of trademark and copyright infringement against the taxi operators.

Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, who granted the interim protection, said that the defendants' continued use of the "well-known and protected brand name" would cause a "grave injury" to RIL.

The order was passed in a commercial intellectual property suit filed by RIL against Asif Ahmed, who registered t...