Appellant, through Application No. 3757855, sought registration of ‘COCK’ word mark for ‘water and colour pistols, water and colour guns, water and colour sprayers, being toys included in Class 28’. The objection of Learned Senior Examiner predicated on registration granted to Chinna Nadar. Chinna Nadar’s mark is a composite device mark which includes words: ‘COCK BRAND’ and ‘AMORCES’. As such, the mark was not registered for toy pistols, but only for ‘amorces’. A toy pistol which sprays water cannot, howsoever much imagination were to be strained, be likened to ‘amorces’. Indeed, one would extinguish the other. Fire cannot be likened to water. It is irrelevant, both may be used in some festivals. The registration of ‘COCK’ word mark would not result in any likelihood of confusion. Application No. 3757855 would accordingly stand allowed.

– Hon’ble Justice C. Hari Shankar of Hon’ble High Court of Delhi, Manu Garg v. Registrar of Trade Marks, [CA(COMM.IPD-TM) 143/2021] decided on 01.02.2023.

If a stranger points a real-looking toy gun to a chowkidar and threatens him to open the gate at the pain of death, and the chowkidar opens the gate on the genuine belief that the person is holding a real gun, the said person can be said to have committed criminal intimidation against the chowkidar. In reality, the toy gun could not have caused any harm, yet, as the person had been able to instil the fear of harm and even death to the chowkidar and compelled him to open the gate, which he is not legally bound to do, the offence of criminal intimidation has been committed. Under such circumstances, it becomes irrelevant whether the threat could actually be executed or not. What is relevant is that the threat was issued, and the chowkidar truly believed and felt threatened that such a threat could be carried out, and opened the gate to avoid the execution of the threat.

– Hon’ble Justice N.K. Singh, Vijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu, [Criminal Appeal No. 2859 of 2025] decided on 22.05.2026.