How Karnataka won the legal right over use of abbreviation ‘KSRTC’ Premium
The Hindu
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has secured legal ownership of its trademarks, including the abbreviation KSRTC. Both Karnataka and Kerala SRTCs have been using the same abbreviation for many decades now and they now have no legal hurdle to continue to do so
The longstanding dispute over the use of the abbreviation ‘KSRTC’ between Karnataka and Kerala has finally concluded. The Madras High Court recently ruled that there is no legal restriction preventing the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation from using the abbreviation ‘KSRTC’.
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has secured legal ownership of its trademarks, including the abbreviation KSRTC. Both Karnataka and Kerala SRTCs have been using the abbreviation KSRTC for many decades now.
A controversy regarding the trademark designation ‘KSRTC’ surfaced in 2021 when the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation claimed that the Trademark Registry had granted exclusive rights to them for using the ‘KSRTC’ trademark. According to their claim, their counterpart in Karnataka had no entitlement to the trademark.
This sparked a huge controversy between the two state-operated transport corporations, leading to a legal dispute.
The Mysore Government Road Transport Department (MGRTD), started in 1948 in Karnataka, transformed into the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation in 1973. Meanwhile, in Kerala, the former Travancore State Transport Department was reinstated as the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation on April 1, 1965.
According to officials from Karnataka SRTC, even though Kerala began using the acronym KSRTC first, it was Karnataka that initially registered the acronym.
“KSRTC had applied for a grant of Trade Mark Certificate for the use of the ‘KSRTC’ abbreviation. The corporation was granted Trade Mark Certificates by the Trade Mark Registry of the Government of India in 2013 with a user date of 1.11.1973. Copyright is also obtained from the Registrar of Copy Rights for the use of the ‘KSRTC’ logo and ‘Gandabherunda art’,” a senior KSRTC official told The Hindu.
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