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3. Respondent No.2 therefore asserts that the said domain was never a part of IPR or Service Bond Agreement as the domain was purchased on 28.10.2019, which is much after execution of IPR agreement and Service Bond Agreement and handing over all the properties of M/s. StraightDrive Softlab LLP to the present petitioners on 7.2.2019. Respondent No.2 specifically asserts that he purchased and registered the Domain routesrezworld.com for his personal use. The complainant NC: 2025:KHC:43558 HC-KAR also alleges that the present petitioners were pressurizing to part with the domain or transfer/licence/sell the domain routesrezworld.com, which was equally denied by the complainant. Respondent No.2/complainant is aggrieved by the fraudulent activities of the petitioners in charging the customers credit cards without knowledge and approval of the customers. Respondent No.2/complainant alleges that petitioners had pre-designed a plan to remove the complainant from the accused No.1/company and implicate him in false cases.

9. Per contra, the learned Senior Counsel has vehemently argued and contended that as per the IPR agreement, the complainant in good faith handed over all the materials belonging to complainant's company i.e. M/s.StraightDrive Softlab LLP pursuant to execution of IPR

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NC: 2025:KHC:43558 HC-KAR agreement on 7.2.2019. She would contend that the disputed domain was purchased by the complainant independently and that payment was made by the complainant who has purchased the domain from his personal account held in HDFC Bank. She would contend that the disputed domain was never part of IPR agreement as the domain was purchased on 28.10.2019. Referring to the records, she has vehemently argued and submitted that after purchase and registering the domain, respondent No.2/ complainant has renewed the domain for a period of four years and the same is evident from the copy of the renewal order of domain from GoDaddy.com. Reliance is placed on the Bank statements to substantiate that complainant has got renewed the domain.

"8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS a. The Intellect Possessor acknowledges that any and all of the copyright, trademarks and other Intellectual Property Rights used or subsisting in or in connection with the development of Technological / Software Programme / Web-Interface, delivery of Services, enhancements, improvements, modifications and all other developments thereon and with respect to all documentation, flowcharts, drawings, specifications, manuals and other data which were created by the Intellect Possessor are or shall always vest in (as the case may be) and shall be the sole property of Purchaser without the requirement of any further acts on behalf of either Party. The Intellect Possessor shall not during this time or at any time henceforth in any way question or dispute the ownership by the Purchaser thereof. The Intellect Possessor shall not hold any copy (hard or soft) of any such information, source and object codes together with all related listings and documentation i.e (Intellectual Property).
b. The Intellect Possessor agrees to execute or cause to be executed all such instruments and do or cause to do all such things as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to give full effect to the above and shall co-operate and assist the Purchaser in enforcing its rights under this Clause."

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13. On reading the extracted portion, the IPR agreement clearly discloses that the intellect possessor/respondent No.2 acknowledges that all of the copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights used or subsisting in or in connection with the development of Technological/software programme/web- interface, delivery of services, enhancements, improvements, modifications and all other developments thereon and with respect to all documentation, flowcharts, drawings, specifications, manuals and other data which were created by the Intellect Possessor are or shall always vest in (as the case may be) and shall be the sole property of Purchaser without the requirement of any further acts on behalf of either party. The Intellect Possessor shall not during this time or at any time henceforth in any way question or dispute the ownership by the purchaser thereof. The Intellect possessor shall not hold any copy(hard or soft) of any such information, source and