VIKRAMAJIT SEN
SMITHKLINE BICHAM – Appellant
Versus
SUNIL SINGHI – Respondent
( 1 ) BY way of a present Objection, the Defendant No. 2 has challenged the territorial jurisdiction of this Court. The Plaintiffs have filed this suit for the grant of a permanent injunction restraining the Defendants from infringing its Trademark and Copyright and also for Passing-Off- The Plaintiff is the proprietor of the Trade Mark PANADOL and PANADOL EXTRA, which is admittedly an invented word. It has been registered in Class 5 of the Fourth Schedule to the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as the Marks Act) with effect from 21/10/1982 in favour of the Plaintiff. On 7/9/1999 the following ex parte ad interim orders were granted:
"i. A. No. 8797/99 notice for 31/1/2000. The plaint and this application discloses that the Plaintiff is the registered owner of the mark PANADOL and has spent Millions of Pounds on its advertisement and promotion since 1994. Its turn over in this period 1994-1998 is approximately 170 million Pounds. The concerned Cartons have been filed and on a perusal of the offending Carton of "paramol extra" and "pamacol", it is quite evident that the Defendants are attempting to not only infringe the plaintiff s trade ma
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