JUDGMENTBY: KAMALANATHAN RATNAM J

The product

Unlike the face of Helen of Troy that launched the might of a thousand ships, the plaintiffs launched this suit upon the sails of six causes of action to protect their Stopcard Auto Theft Device (Stopcard). Stopcard can be described as a device which enables the owner of a car to stop the car from being driven away by an unauthorized driver by simply picking up the phone and dialling some digits.

Its function

In summary, it functions as follows:

(1) Upon the theft of a car, the owner who will be given a pin number will

have to call the paging company, identify himself via his pin-number and dial

the relevant digit assigned to the required function, for example, 1 for

STOP. The operating system thereafter will receive this message and

transfer it into a radio signal. The IVM in the relevant car will receive the

radio signal, interpret the message, that is, Stop and carry out the

function required, that is, Stop. The car, if moving, will thereafter

slowly become immobile.

(2) Should the car come to a stop, the whole system requires that upon

ignition, secret procedures will have to be carried out to ensure the

continued running