1. In this matter, we have had the benefit of hearing learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners and counsel for the respondent.

The prayer made in these writ petitions being common is that the cases, arising out of the five Statutes i.e. Patents Act, 1970; Trademarks Act, 1999; Designs Act, 2000; Copyright Act, 2000; and The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration And Protection) Act, 1999, of the value less than Rs.1.00 crore are not required to be transferred in view of the Proviso to Section 7 of the Commercial Court, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division Ordinance, 2015 (hereinafter referred to as Proviso to Section 7 of the Ordinance).

Section 7 and the First Proviso to Section 7 of the Ordinance reads as under:-

“All suits and applications relating to commercial disputes of a Specified Value filed in a High Court having ordinary original civil jurisdiction shall be heard and disposed of by the Commercial Division of that High Court:

Provided that all suits and applications relating to commercial disputes, stipulated by an Act to