( 1 ) IA No. 6059/2002 is an application filed by the plaintiffs under order 39 Rules 1 and 2 read with Section 151 CPC, praying for an ad-interim injunction restraining the defendants from importing, sourcing, manufacturing, distributing, supplying, offering for sale or dealing in ophthalmic glass blanks/lenses bearing "two ribs" design which have not been sourced from the plaintiffs, and also from passing off counterfeit "two ribs" products as those of the plaintiffs till the disposal of this suit. It is also prayed that the defendants be restrained by an ad-interim injunction from infringing the plaintiffs copyright in the industrial drawings in the manufacture of ophthalmic lenses bearing "two ribs" design which is a three dimensional re-production. IA No. 7084/2002 is an application filed by defendant No. l for restraining the plaintiffs from issuing any threats/communications to the dealers/business associates of the defendants till the application for stay is decided by the Court.

( 2 ) THE facts, relevant for the disposal of the aforesaid two applications, briefly stated, are that the plaintiffs have filed a suit for permanent injunction and damages agains