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Madras High Court

Aachi Spices And Foods Pvt. Ltd vs Aachi Trucking Services Private ... on 14 August, 2019

Author: Krishnan Ramasamy

Bench: Krishnan Ramasamy

                                                                                 C.S.No.901 of 2010

                              IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

                                               DATED : 14.08.2019

                                                       CORAM

                            THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE KRISHNAN RAMASAMY

                                                C.S.No.901 of 2010

                      1.Aachi Spices and Foods Pvt. Ltd.,
                        Plot No: 1926, 34th Street,
                        I Block, Ishwarya Colony,
                        Anna Nagar West, Chennai – 600 040.
                        Represented by its Director,
                        A.D.Padmasingh Issac.

                      2.M/s.Aachi Masala Foods (P) Ltd.,
                        No.6, Ground Floor,
                        15th Street, Anna Nagar, 'G' Block,
                        Chennai – 600 040.
                        Represented by its Director,
                        Ashwin Pandian.                                           ... Plaintiffs

                                                         Vs.

                      Aachi Trucking Services Private Limited,
                      Door No:9, III Floor, VGP Murphy Squire,
                      No:19, GST Road, ST.Thomas Mount,
                      Chennai – 600 016,
                      Tamilnadu, India.                                           ... Defendant


                             Plaint filed under Order VII Rule 1 C.P.C. read with Order IV
                      Rule 1 of the High Court Original Side Rules praying for:
                                  (a) granting a permanent injunction, restraining
                            the   defendant,   by   himself,   his   servants,     agents,
                            distributors, or anyone claiming through him from
                            manufacturing, selling, advertising and offering for sale


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                            using the same name AACHI as used by the plaintiffs
                            and      the    trademark          AACHI        TRUCKING    SERVICES
                            PRIVATE LIMITED or any other similar trademark name
                            or similar sounding expression in any media and use the
                            same in name board, invoices, letter heads and visiting
                            cards or by using any other trademark/name which is in
                            anyway visually or deceptively or phonetically similar to
                            the plaintiffs' trademark/name AACHI and use the same
                            in pouches, packets or use the mark in invoices, letters
                            heads and visiting cards, as part of their company name
                            or any other trade literature or by using any other
                            trademark which is in any way visually, or phonetically
                            similar        to     the   plaintiffs'    registered       Trademark
                            Nos.922594, 922595, 1374937, 1340324, 1340325,
                            1367430,            1372439,      1372440,       1375754,     838786,
                            976559,         1025302,       1025304,         1025305,     1318493,
                            1318494,            1318495,   1375755,          1375756,    1380625,
                            1357284,            1479158,   1479159,          1418281,    1025303,
                            1415328 and 1116254 or in any manner infringing the
                            plaintiff's registered trademarks referred herein.
                                     (b) directing the defendant to surrender to the
                            plaintiffs all the packing material, cartons, advertisement
                            materials and hoardings, letter-heads, visiting cards,
                            office         stationery      and        all      other     materials
                            containing/bearing          the    name     AACHI     as    shown    in
                            Document No.2 or other deceptively similar trademark
                            used in the pouches and packets bearing the word
                            AACHI.

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                                  (c) directing the defendant to render an account of
                            profits made by them by the use of the impugned
                            trademark and get up as shown in Document No.2 on
                            the service referred and decree the suit for the profits
                            found to have been made by the defendant after the
                            defendants have rendered accounts:
                                  (d) directing the defendant to pay to the plaintiff's
                            the costs to the suit, and
                                  (e) pass such further or other orders, as this
                            Hon'ble     Court   may     deem   fit   and   proper     in   the
                            circumstances of the case and thus render justice.


                                      For Plaintiffs     : M/s.C.Daniel & Gladys Daniel

                                      For Defendant      : Set ex-parte
                                                           vide order dated 20.12.2016




                                                       JUDGMENT

The learned counsel appearing for the plaintiffs submitted that nothing survives in this case for adjudication, since the defendant Company was in dormant state from the year 2014, and they are not carrying on any business and the name of the defendant Company was also struck off from the List of Companies by the Registrar of Companies in the year 2014 itself. The learned 3/4 http://www.judis.nic.in C.S.No.901 of 2010 KRISHNAN RAMASAMY,J., at counsel also drawn the attention of this Court to the ROC Notice. Therefore, the learned counsel submitted that the present Civil Suit may be closed granting liberty to the plaintiff to file a fresh suit against the defendant, in case, if the defendant Company again got enrolled in the List of Companies and carrying on the business by using the plaintiff's trademark “AACHI”.

2. Considering the above submission of the learned counsel for the plaintiffs, this Civil Suit is closed with liberty as sought for by the plaintiff. No costs.

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