1 This suit is filed under S.104 and 108 of the Indian Patents Act for prohibitory injunction restraining the defendants from manufacturing and selling polymer based brush coir mats using the plaintiffs invention or any part thereof, or adopting in the process of manufacture the specially designed and deviced metal core or in any manner infringing the patent right of the plaintiffs in the process of manufacturing polymer based brush coir mats in any manner whatsoever and for damages of Rs. 22,500 with interest at the rate of 18 per cent per annum from the date of suit till realisation as per the statement of accounts shown and also to recover future damages in the rate of Rs. 22,500 per annum with interest at the rate of 1.8 per cent per annum from the defendants and their assets and with costs.

2 This suit was filed originally as O.S. No. 13/93 before the District Court of Kottayam and in view of the counter claim made by the defendants, the suit was transferred to this court for trial.

3 The material averments in the plaint are that the plaintiffs invented and developed a particular technique in the manufacture of polymer based brush mats which was duly patented under the Indian Pa