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Prathiba M. Singh, J.

BRIEF FACTS

1. The present is a suit filed by the Plaintiff- Sterlite Technologies Ltd. - seeking inter alia, an injunction restraining infringement of Indian Patent No. IN335369 (hereinafter "IN'69/suit patent") which relates to optical fiber cables (hereinafter "OFCs"). The Plaintiff claims to be an industry leading integrator of digital networks providing integrated 5G ready end to end solutions ranging from wired to wireless, design to deployment connectivity to compute through core capabilities in Optical Interconnect, Virtualised Access Solutions, Network Software and System Integration. The Plaintiff company was established in the year 1988 as a copper cable manufacturing unit and thereafter in 1993 developed optical fiber manufacturing capabilities. The Plaintiff avers that it is engaged in the business of telecom products and solutions, including manufacture and sale of integrated optical fibers and OFCs and also provides cloud computing services. As per the plaint, the Plaintiff has manufacturing facilities in India, China, and Brazil, and software development centers in India and U.K. The Plaintiff's revenue as of the financial year 2020, is stated to be around Rs. 41,420 million, with offices in 16 countries and 7 global production facilities. The detailed profile of the Plaintiff has been set out in the plaint.