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Relaxo Footwears VS Nikhil Footwears Order Granting Injunction & Exparte
Relaxo Footwears VS Nikhil Footwears Order Granting Injunction & Exparte
+ CS(COMM) 425/2021
versus
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAYANT NATH
ORDER
% 10.09.2021
This hearing is conducted through video-conferencing.
IA No. 11592-93/2021
Allowed subject to all just exceptions.
CS(COMM) 425/2021
Let the plaint be registered as a suit.
Issue summons to the defendants by speed post and email, returnable
for 23.11.2021.
IA No. 11591/2021
1. This application is filed under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 CPC by the
plaintiff seeking the following reliefs:-
“a) An ex parte order of ad-interim injunction restraining the
Defendants, their proprietors/partners/directors/principal officers
as the case may be, holding concern, affiliate concern, sister
concerns, agents, legal representatives, heirs and any other
person acting for or on their behalf, from manufacturing, selling,
offering for sale, advertising, importing, exporting or in any other
2. It is the case of the plaintiff that it began its business in 1976. The
plaintiff was incorporated in 1984. It is stated that the present suit concerns
the plaintiff’s intellectual property rights in the design and/or overall trade
dress/getup of certain footwear products which are original, distinct and
novel products of the plaintiff. It is stated that the defendants have
unlawfully imitated and pirated the said design and/or trade dress of the
plaintiff in the said products, details of which is given as follows:-
S.No. Relaxo’s Article Action’s Article
1.
BHG 136
AFG 1036
BHG 127
AFG 1027
3.
BHG 73
AHG 118
4.
BHG 119
AFG 1019
5.
BHG 103
AHG 134
BHG 104
AHG 153
7.
BHG 128
AFG 1028
9.
BHG 28
AHG 124
3. It is stated that the aforesaid designs of the plaintiff from serial Nos.1
to 7 are registered before the Controller General of Patents, Designs and
Trade Marks. The defendants are slavishly, it is stated, copying the above
JAYANT NATH, J
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
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