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2008 Supreme(Mad) 3228

M.JEYAPAUL
Bharat Matrimony. Com. P. , Ltd. , Chennai – Appellant
Versus
People Interactive (I) Pvt. Ltd. , ChennaI – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant:P.S. Raman, Senior Advocate for M/s. A.A. Mohan, Bonda Mohan & K. Mugunthan, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Ms. Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Counsel for M/s. Gladys David, C. Uma & Vineet Subramani, Advocates.

Judgment :-

(1) THESE applications are filed seeking ad interim injunction restraining the respondents from infringing of copyrights and from passing off their "phone Validation Services" as that of the plaintiffs service.

(2) THE applicants/plaintiffs have contended in their applications that the applicant, who is a pioneer for matrimonial alliance, created a system "assured Contact -Phone Verification Service" through its employees during the course of employment. The applicant/plaintiff has become the owner and proprietor of the copyright in the system

which is inbuilt in the applicants website. The applicant spent several lakhs of rupees in developing and implementing the unique feature. "assured Contact-Phone verification Services". The unique feature has become synonymous with the applicants website Bharat Matrimony. com. The respondents website is a direct competitor of the applicants website under the name "my Contact Details". The respondent is offering the very same identical feature to the customers. The same step by step procedure is adopted by the respondent in its website, slavishly imitating the applicants unique feature. The respondent cannot lavishly copy the featu






















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