BENGALURU: Kerala government’s transfer to deliver a note to Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) within the acronym signature has obtained the latter by surprise.
Both state-run bus companies in Karnataka and Kerala are recognized by exactly the identical acronym — KSRTC.
On Wednesday, Kerala transportation ministry Antony Raju’s office issued a press statement saying that the acronym KSRTC belongs to Kerala RTC.
“Transport companies in Kerala and Karnataka that were widely employed by the title’KSRTC’ could be utilized exclusively by Kerala for today.
In 2014, Karnataka issued a note to Kerala to not use the title’KSRTC’.
Afterwards, the subsequently Kerala RTC CMD approached the Registrar of Trademarks and they’ve issued a hierarchical arrangement” said Raju.
Kerala RTC supervisor director Biju Prabhakar said that they will probably send a note to Karnataka.
Karnataka deputy CM and transportation minister Laxman Savadi stated:”We haven’t got the purchase duplicate yet.
We’ll talk with our legal staff and research all possibilities after we get it,” he explained.
KSRTC officials stated the transportation body intends to take all probable measures to keep their rights within the ritual and therefore so are mulling to challenge the executive purchase.
Both Karnataka and Kerala were locked in battle along the signature ownership at the Registrar of Trademarks beneath the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks.
Even though Karnataka registered the trademark’KSRTC’ on its own title in 2013, Kerala said that it started transport operations under exactly the identical title in 1965 and Karnataka started operations just in 1973.
Back in 1948, the Mysore Government Road Transport Department (MGRTD) has been formed and became KSRTC at 1973.
In 2014, Karnataka had issued notices to Kerala on the usage of’KSRTC’ acronym following hiring the patent.
Kerala was operating its own condition transportation figure as’Kerala RTC’ since.