Cryogas Equipment Private Limited vs Inox India Private Limited on 8 March, 2022
In fact, in the recent decision Cryogas Equipment (P) Ltd. vs. Inox India
Ltd. (Supra) where the overlap between the Copyright Act 1957 and the
Designs Act, 2000 was in issue, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has not only
exhaustively gone into the interpretation of "design" by the English Courts
and the US Courts but after going into a review of the authorities
acknowledged that the term design has been extensively interpreted by
English Courts, considering that the expression was pari materia with the
definition consecrated in the Indian context and are of highly persuasive
value. In this background, the outright rejection of foreign decisions in the
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impugned orders as also in the UST Global decision is misconceived and
erroneous.