JUDGMENT :

Hima Kohli, J.

The plaintiffs have filed the present suit for permanent injunction for restraining infringement of trade marks, passing off trade dress, unfair competition, rendition of accounts, delivery up and damages etc. against the defendants. Mr. Pravin Anand, learned counsel for the plaintiff submits that the plaintiff No. 1 is a company organized and existing under the Law of the State of Delaware, USA. The plaintiff No. 2 is a company existing under the law of India, having its principal place of business at Pune. The Deere Group is commonly referred to as the 'John Deere' after its founder and Chairman, Mr. John Deere. The plaintiff No. 1 was established in the year 1837 and it traces its origin to a blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois, U.S.A. where Mr. John Deere had invented the first commercially successful steel plow, allowing pioneer farmers to cut clean furrows through the sticky Midwest prairie soil.

2. The plaintiff No. 1 claims to be one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer in the world including India, primarily having four business segments namely 'Agricultural Equipment'; 'Commercial & Consumer Equipment