HAVELLS INDIA LIMITED vs CAB-RIO INDUSTRIES, & ORS.

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment Reserved on: 27th January 2025 Judgment Pronounced on: 17th February, 2025 I.A. 44613/2024 IN + CS(COMM) 995/2024 & I.A. 44614/2024 HAVELLS INDIA LIMITED .....Plaintiff Through: Mr. Jayant Mehta, Mr. Sudeep Chatterjee, Mr. Kunal Vats and Mr. Sanyam Suri, Advocates versus CAB-RIO INDUSTRIES, & ORS. .....Defendants Through: Mr. Aditya Gupta, Mr. Yash Raj and Ms. Aishwarya Kane, Advocates for D-1, 3, 5 & 6 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT BANSAL JUDGMENT AMIT BANSAL, J. I.A. 44613/2024 (under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of CPC) 1. The captioned application has been filed seeking relief of interim injunction restraining the defendants from infringing the trademark of the plaintiff, passing off their goods as that of the plaintiff, along with other ancillary reliefs. CASE SET UP IN THE PLAINT 2. The case set up by the plaintiff in the plaint is as under: 2.1. The plaintiff, Havells India Limited, was incorporated in the year 1983 and is engaged in the business of Electrical and Power Distribution Equipment Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:DHARMENDER SINGH CS(COMM) 995/2024 Page 1 of 17 Signing Date:17.02.2025 17:30:43 dealing in cables and wires and other industrial and domestic circuit protection devices. 2.2. The plaintiff company has extensive production and distribution networks across India and internationally, providing a wide range of world class industrial and consumer electrical products. 2.3. The plaintiff company sells its products under various brands like ‘Havells’, ‘Standard’, ‘Crabtree’, ‘Lloyd’ and ‘Promptec’. 2.4. Sometime in and around the year 2012, the plaintiff introduced the brand ‘REO’ in various markets across the country. It is the case of the plaintiff that the word ‘REO’ is an acronym for