{"id":24466,"date":"2026-05-17T05:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:39:26","slug":"clean-hands-doctrine-in-copyright-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/clean-hands-doctrine-in-copyright-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Hands Doctrine in Copyright Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is an old saying in law and in life: he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. In the world of intellectual property litigation, this principle has particular force when a party approaches a court seeking the powerful and immediate relief of an interim injunction, which is essentially a request to stop someone else’s activity before the full facts of a dispute have been examined in a trial.<\/p>

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