I.P. Mukerji, J.

Each of the plaintiff companies ("the plaintiff") is a pharmaceutical company. It sells various medicinal products under different brand names. They are a group. They call themselves the Mankind Group. The second defendant was the Sales Manager of their Ahmedabad division in Gujrat. The third defendant is his wife. The first defendant is a company promoted by the husband and the wife.

2. This defendant company started selling eleven or twelve medicinal products, under eleven different trade marks, in the market. Although the marks are eleven, the medicinal products are twelve. A table showing the twelve products and the eleven marks is set out below:

SAME COMPOSITION

    

Sr.No.	Kepler Brand Name	Kepler Composition	Mankind Group Brand Name	Mankind Group Composition
1	KEPODIL	Cefpodomime	KEPODIL	Cefpodoxime
2	KEPREB	Rabeprazole	KEPREB	Rabeprazole
3	D3FLOW	Vitamin D3	D3FLOW	Vitamin D3
4	KEPTRON	Ondansetron	KEPTRON	Ondansetron
5	TWAGIC	Aceclofenac Paracetamol	TWAGIC	Aceclofenac + Paracetamol