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Artificial Intelligence has moved from the periphery to the centre of legal practice. In legal research, document review, case summarisation and translation, AI now promises efficiencies which were unimaginable a decade ago. The Indian judiciary has been quick to effectively utilise them through e-filing, virtual hearings, digital case management etc.

In the spring of 2026, workers engaged by the local organizing committee of the FIFA World Cup arrived at a building in downtown Dallas, Texas, armed with industrial paint rollers and a commercial directive: cover the whale. The mural they proceeded to obliterate, a 17,000-square-foot testament to ocean life titled Whaling Wall 82, hand-painted by celebrated marine artist Wyland over two painstaking weeks in 1999, had graced the building for nearly three decades.

In Astral Ltd. v. M/s Astral Marketing Syndicate & Anr., CS (COMM) 294/2024, the Delhi High Court dismissed an application seeking rejection of the plaint for lack of territorial jurisdiction. The Court held that, at the stage of considering an objection under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the averments in the plaint must be accepted as true. It further observed that an interactive listing on a third-party platform such as Justdial, through which consumers can access product catalogues, initiate enquiries, and contact the Defendant, is sufficient to prima facie confer territorial jurisdiction in an internet-based trademark dispute.