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Madras High Court

M/S.Texmo Industries vs Mukesh Lamba on 6 October, 2025

                                       C.S.(Comm.Div) No.155 of 2025, O.A.Nos.617 to 623 of 2025 and A.No.2770 of 2025

                                  IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

                                                        DATED: 06.10.2025

                                                                CORAM:

                            THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE N. SENTHILKUMAR

                                                C.S.(Comm.Div) No.155 of 2025
                                   and O.A.Nos.617 to 623 of 2025 and A.No.2770 of 2025


                   M/s.Texmo Industries                                                       ... Plaintiff

                                                                  Versus

                   Mukesh Lamba                                                               ... Defendant

                   Prayer: Commercial Suit filed under Order VII Rule 1 of the Civil
                   Procedure Code, 1908, r/w Order IV Rule 1 of Original Side Rules, 1956,
                   r/w Sections 2(1)(C)(XVII) read with Section 7 of the Commercial Courts
                   Act, 2015 and Sections 27, 28, 29, 134 & 135 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999
                   and Sections 51, 55 & 62 of the Copyrights Act, 1957 to grant a judgment
                   and decree on the following terms:


                             a)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant, his partners, his
                   employees, officers, servants, agents, and all others acting for and on his
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, maintaining and/or
                   operating websites, domain names, social media platforms, email address,
                   mobile applications, trade/corporate name and in any other manner directly
                   or indirectly, online or offline, dealing with any goods or services in the



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                   name of



                   VARUN PUMPINGS which is identical to the Plaintiff's registered trademark
                   TARO,




                   and its formative marks amounting to the infringement of the plaintiff's
                   registered trademark



                   bearing application Nos.3884169 in class 07, 3884170 in class 09, 3884171
                   in class 11 and 3884173 in class 17;
                             b)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant, his partners, his
                   employees, officers, servants, agents, and all others acting for and on his
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, maintaining and/or
                   operating websites, domain names, social media platforms, email address,
                   mobile applications, trade/corporate name and in any other manner directly
                   or indirectly, online or offline, dealing with any goods or services in the
                   name of


                   VARUN PUMPINGS or any other mark which is identical/similar to the
                   Plaintiff's trademarks TARO,



                   and such other marks and passing off the goods/services of the Defendant
                   as and for those of the Plaintiff;

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                             c)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant his partners,
                   employees, officers, servants, agents and all others acting for and on their
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, exporting, advertising,
                   offering for sale, any products, maintain and/or operate websites, domain
                   names, social media platforms, e-mail addresses, mobile applications,
                   trade/corporate name and in any other manner, directly or indirectly, online
                   or offline, dealing with any goods or services under


                   VARUN PUMPINGS which is identical to the artistic work inherent in the
                   Plaintiff's registered device marks and copyright over its artistic work



                   registered under Registration No. A-141687/2022 in any manner
                   whatsoever;
                             d) A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant his partners,
                   employees, officers, servants, agents, and all others acting for and on their
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, exporting, advertising,
                   offering for sale, any products, maintain and/or operate websites, domain
                   names, social media platforms, e-mail addresses, mobile applications, trade/
                   corporate name and in any other manner, directly or indirectly, online or
                   offline, dealing with any goods or services infringing the copyright in the
                   artistic works on the website of the plaintiff by reproducing the layout,
                   interface, font style of the Plaintiff's website in any manner whatsoever;
                             e)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant his partners,
                   employees, officers, servants, agents and all others acting for and on their
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, exporting, advertising,

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                   offering for sale, any products, maintain and/or operate websites, domain
                   names, social media platforms, e-mail addresses, mobile applications, trade/
                   corporate name and in any other manner, directly or indirectly, online or
                   offline, dealing with any goods or services infringing the copyright in the
                   literary works on the website of the Plaintiff by reproducing the layout,
                   interface, font style of the Plaintiff's website in any manner whatsoever;
                             f)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant his partners,
                   employees, officers, servants, agents, and all others acting for and on their
                   behalf from manufacturing, selling, distributing, exporting, advertising,
                   offering for sale, any products, maintain and/or operate websites, domain
                   names, social media platforms, e-mail addresses, mobile applications,
                   trade/corporate name and in any other manner, directly or indirectly, online
                   or offline, dealing with any goods or services infringing the copyright in the
                   cinematographic works on the website of the Plaintiff by reproducing the
                   exact videos of the Plaintiff's website in any manner whatsoever;
                             g)A permanent injunction restraining the Defendant, his partners,
                   directors, proprietors, subsidiaries, affiliates, franchisees, officers, servants,
                   agents, distributors, stockists, representatives, licensees and anyone acting
                   for or on his behalf directly or indirectly, as the case may be from
                   performing any actions, especially using the trademark


                   VARUN PUMPINGS or any mark which is deceptively similar and or identical
                   to the Plaintiff's trademark TARO,



                   and        its   formative      marks         amounting            to    unfair   competition,

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                   misrepresentation, dilution of the goodwill and reputation of the Plaintiff's
                   trademark or doing any other thing which will lead to dilution of Plaintiff's
                   Intellectual Properties;
                             h)The Defendant be ordered to pay the Plaintiff a sum of INR
                   25,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Lakhs Only) as damages for having
                   committed infringement of the Plaintiffs' registered trademark and passing
                   off in respect of the Plaintiff's trademark TARO,


                   and its formative marks and infringement and passing off of the Plaintiff's
                   literary, artistic and cinematographic work;
                             i)An order of declaration, declaring the Plaintiff's trademark "TARO"
                   as a 'well-known trademark' within the meaning of Section 2(1)(zg) read
                   with Section 11(6) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999;
                             j)A preliminary decree be passed in favour of the Plaintiff directing
                   the Defendants to render true and proper accounts of the profits arising out
                   of the amount of sales generated by the defendant in respect of their alleged
                   activities bearing the impugned marks


                   VARUN PUMPINGS or any mark which is deceptively and or identical to the
                   Plaintiff's trademarks TARO,


                   and its formative marks;
                          k)To grant order of delivery up of any brochures/printed material
                   and/or any material bearing "TARO", "TARO PUMPS",




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                   which infringes Plaintiffs' registered trademark "TARO", "TARO PUMPS,




                                  For Plaintiff            :         Mr.M.S.Bharath

                                  For Defendant            :         Mr.Rishi Nandhan R.B.



                                                          JUDGMENT

A compromise has been entered into between the plaintiff and the defendant. Learned counsel for the plaintiff submitted that the date of filing was on 25.06.2025. The Memorandum of compromise was entered between the parties in the month of August 2025. Learned counsel for the plaintiff and the learned counsel for the defendant confirm that compromise has taken place. The Memorandum of Compromise is extracted hereunder:

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2.This suit is decreed in terms of the Memorandum of Compromise, which shall form part of this judgment. No costs. Consequently, connected applications are closed.

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