Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) founded in India in 1946, is engaged in dairy products manufacturing and marketing with an average of 4.85 million liters of milk collection every day. Its AMUL trade

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Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) founded in India in 1946, is engaged in dairy products manufacturing and marketing with an average of 4.85 million liters of milk collection every day. Its AMUL trademark is the largest food brand in India and a famous trademark in India. It says that AMUL trademark is the world's biggest vegetarian brand of cheese and the biggest pouched milk brand in the world. A broad variety of food products like cheese, ghee, butter, ice cream, beverages, yogurts, cream, and associated products (milk powder, buttermilk, condensed milk), coffee, chocolates, sweets, spreads, desserts, and bread are being marketed and sold at Gujarat. The AMUL trademark is a prominent well known trademark in international sphere. For over 60 years in newspapers, magazines, radio & television, and now, online, via its own website as well as Google and YouTube, it has also been widely advertised both in India and internationally. In 2018, GCMMF received several complaints with respect to fraudulent websites using the well-known trademark 'Amul' as part of their domain names. These parties not only deceived the public by offering distributorship, dealership, jobs, etc. at Amul, but were also asked to deposit money to their bank accounts. Deceptive Similarity is also considered as the ground for not granting a Trademark registration. Elaborate the statement with the help of decided cases.

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