India, March 28 -- In a fresh round of litigation over use of the "Burger King" trademark, Pune's iconic eatery has decided to take on its namesake US-based international fast-food chain head on. The Pune eatery's appeal against a Bombay High Court order restraining it from using the "Burger King" trademark was admitted earlier this week.

"We have been using the name Burger King for decades, and now all of a sudden this trademark dispute has arisen," Hiren Kamod, appearing on behalf of the Pune eatery, told the division bench comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Makarand Karnik on Thursday.

The dispute for branding between the Pune-based eatery and the US-based fast food chain, founded in 1954, began in a Pune court in 2012....