MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently restrained a Chinese company and its website from infringing a trademark of an Indian jewellery company by using same or any deceptively similar trademarks and from "conducting jewellery business" with such mark.
Justice SC Gupte passed the interim order on an application filed by Indian Fine Jewellery against a Chinese manufacturing company for alleged infringement of trademark and copyright of goods. The judge after hearing counsel Nausher Kohli with advocate Jay Vakil for the
Indian company
also directed the Chinese company to "disclose on oath particulars of sale by them using the infringing website".
Counsel Bharat Gandhi with advocate SV Newaskar for the Chinese company said their client has already placed on record its sales registered for August to October 2019. The court said further disclosure thus may not be made.
The Indian company's case is that it came across a website offering jewellery for sale. It claimed to place orders and received jewellery under its brandname.
The HC order noted that a Chinese manufacturer appeared to be owning the website. "The Chinese manufacturer also had an Indian representative appointed for sales in India." The HC will hear the matter next on December 13.
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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