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In a significant legal obstacle to IT huge Cognisant, the Bombay High Court has actually bought the business to stop utilizing its logo design in India, following a
hallmark violation
fit submitted by a Bengaluru-based fintech company
Atyati Technologies
The court has actually renewed an earlier injunction, ruling that Cognisant needs to avoid showing the objected to logo design up until the case is dealt with. In compliance with the court’s order, Cognizant has actually eliminated its logo design from its Indian site. Together with this, the business has actually likewise gotten rid of the logo design from numerous social networks platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and X (previously referred to as Twitter). Rather of the logo design, the business is showing its name all the above discussed channels.
Hallmark clash over honeycomb style
The legal conflict in between Cognizant and Atyati Technologies focuses on a hexagonal honeycomb-style logo design which Atyati declares it has actually utilized considering that 2019. The company declares that Cognizant utilized the comparable style in 2022 which triggered confusion amongst customers. The most recent judgment to the High Court reverses a June 2024 choice which has actually briefly enabled Cognizant to continue utilizing the logo design. The March 2024 injunction now stays in impact throughout the pendency of the case.
Cognizant presses back
As reported by Economic Times, in a declaration Cognizant stated that it is complying to the court’s order however it still believes in its legal position. “We are adhering to the Order of the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court. We are doing so while we consider our choices for redress,” a business representative stated. “We highly think that our actions have actually been legal and suitable, and we are positive that the legal procedure will verify our position and provide a simply result.”
Cognizant and its legal difficulties
Cognizant has actually dealt with several legal disagreements in the current years. The business has actually been implicated of staff member poaching and declared
copyright infractions
In September 2023, Cognizant worked with a previous Wipro CFO Jatin Dalal. This action of the IT giant triggered Wipro to sue him for breaching a non-compete provision and looking for Rs 25.1 crore in damages. The matter was later on settled, with Cognizant covering Rs 4.2 crore of Dalal’s expenses, consisting of legal costs.A comparable conflict emerged in December 2023 when Wipro’s previous health care head, Mohd Ehteshamul Haque, signed up with Cognizant as primary industrial officer for the Americas. That case was likewise settled, though information were not divulged.Independently, Cognizant is participated in a continuous prominent dispute with Infosys, which has actually implicated it of misusing software application trade tricks to develop a contending health care item. Infosys even called Cognizant CEO S Ravi Kumar in its filings.Cognizant has actually rejected all the claims. In May 2025, a Dallas court directed both business to solve differences over the scope of info exchange before the trial earnings.