The Indian Competition Authority dismisses abuse of dominance claims after a manufacturing company issues a public notice of its trademark rights arising from the corporate insolvency resolution process (Prashant Properties / SPS Steel Rolling Mills)

Key Points To bring an allegation of abuse of dominance before CCI, the informant ought to show that some right it possessed had been infracted by the conduct of the opposite party in terms of Section 4 of the Act. An announcement made in the newspapers as a public notice is merely a declaration of the existence of a right that the opposite party claims to vest in them and which they want to safeguard against any misuse. Brief Facts An Information was filed under Section 19(1)(a) of the Act, by Prashant Properties Pvt. Ltd. (“Informant”) on being aggrieved by a public