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2. This suit for permanent injunction, seeking restraint against the infringement of the copyrights of the plaintiffs, is filed by a total of six plaintiffs. Plaintiff nos.1 and 2 are one group which own the Microsoft Windows and other softwares. Plaintiff nos. 3 and 4 are the second group and which are the owners of the Autodesk softwares. Plaintiff no.5 is the third group owning the Adobe series softwares, and plaintiff no.6 is the fourth group which owns the Norton Antivirus software.

6. PW-1 has deposed with respect to plaintiff nos. 1 and 2 being the owners of Microsoft Windows softwares, Visual Studios software etc belonging to plaintiff nos. 1 and 2. PW-1 has further deposed with respect to the ownership of the Autodesk software programs of plaintiff nos. 3 and 4 being 3D Studio Max and Combustion. PW-1 has further deposed with respect to the ownership of different software programs of the plaintiff no.5 as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier etc. PW-1 has also deposed with respect to the ownership of Norton Antivirus software of plaintiff no.6.

7. Witness PW-1 Mr. Achuthan Sreekumar has deposed with respect to plaintiffs giving specific licenses to specific persons and without which licenses no one can use the softwares of the plaintiffs.

8. The copyright registrations with respect to various software programs of the plaintiff nos. 1 and 2 have been proved and exhibited as Ex.P13 to P20 and which are the copyright registrations certificates. Registration certificates of AutoCAD and other softwares of the plaintiff no.4 have been proved and exhibited as Ex.P21 to P22 and Ex.P24 to P25. The original copyright registration certificates of plaintiff no.5 Adobe Acrobat have been proved and exhibited as P26 to P32. Ownership of programs of plaintiff no.6 is referred to in para 33 of the affidavit by way of evidence of PW-1.