A. RAMAMURTHI, J.

1. These applications are filed by the applicants under Order XIV Rule 8 of Original Side Rules read with Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of Civil Procedure Code, to grant interim injunction restraining the respondents and their men from in any manner passing off or enabling others to pass off the respondents' greases and other products as and for the applicants' greases and other goods by use of the NOBLE containers having a colour scheme of red, green and white or any container which is similar to applicants' CASTROL containers and also interim injunction restraining the respondents and their men from in any manner infringing the applicants' copyright in the artistic work CASTROL containers with colour scheme of red, green and white by use of NOBLE containers having an identical colour scheme.

2. The case in brief for disposal of these applications is as follows :

The first applicant is carrying on business of manufacturing and marketing of high grade lubricating oil products, anti-freezing compounds, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids, de-watering fluids etc., in United Kingdom and several other countries all over the world including India. The first applicant,