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2012 Supreme(Del) 1681

MANMOHAN SINGH
RED HAT INC – Appellant
Versus
HEMANT GUPTA – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Plaintiff:Mr. C.M. Lall, Advocate with Ms. Ekta Sarin & Ms. Nancy Roy, Advs.
For the Defendants: Through Mr. Arun Dhiman, Adv.

JUDGMENT

MANMOHAN SINGH, J.

1. By this order, I propose to decide the pending application filed by the plaintiff under Order XXXIX, Rules 1 & 2 read with Section 151 CPC, being I.A. No.10679/2011, restraining the defendants, their directors, principals, proprietors, partners, etc. from using the offending mark RED HAT along with a device which is deceptively similar to the plaintiff’s SHADOWMAN device and/or the plaintiff’s mark RED HAT, the SHADOWMAN device and the composite mark as a trade mark or part of a trade mark, a trade name or corporate name or as part of a trade or corporate name, domain name or as a part of a domain name, as a meta tag or otherwise on the internet or the worldwide web, or in any other manner whatsoever so as to infringe the registered trademarks of the plaintiff or passing off their services of business as and for the services or business of the plaintiff.

2. The fact of the matter is that the plaintiff company is into open source services which is primarily divided into three main heads, namely:-

a. Red Hat Consulting – mainly dealing with technology assessment, implementations, quick starts, health checks, knowledge transfer workshops etc.

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