S. Ravindra Bhat, J.

1. These three interlocutory appeals seek interference with the common order of the learned Single Judge, dated 13.03.2013, whereby he granted an ad-interim order, and issued a “limited interim injunction restraining the defendants from disseminating contemporaneous match information in the form of ball-by-ball or minute-by-minute score updates/match alerts for a premium, without obtaining a license from the plaintiff.”

SINGLE JUDGE’S FINDINGS

2. The present case had a chequered history. A learned single judge had by the earlier order (dated 08-11-2012) rejected the three suits, holding that they were barred. A Division Bench set aside the learned single judge’s order, and directed that the application for ad-interim injunction should be heard on its merits. Thereafter, the learned single judge, by the impugned order, granted the ad-interim injunction in the manner described earlier. The facts are that Star India Pvt. Ltd. (Star) filed three suits against Piyush Agarwal (Cricbuzz), Idea Cellular (“Idea”) and OnMobile Global Ltd. (“ONMOBILE”). The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) was arrayed as the common defendant in all the three cases. BCCI, h