AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC vs LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on : 7 May 2025 Pronounced on: 1 July 2025 + RFA(OS)(COMM) 11/2025 & CM APPL. 26455/2025 AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC .....Appellant Through: Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul and Mr Arvind Nigam, Sr. Advs. with Mr. Saikrishna Rajagopal, Mr. Sidharth Chopra, Ms. Sneha Jain, Mr. Devvrat Joshi, Mr. Angad S Makkar, Ms. Ira Mahajan, Ms. Pritha Suri, and Mr. Agnish Aditya, Advs. versus LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Gaurav Pachnanda, Mr. J. Sai. Deepak and Mr. Ankit Jain, Sr. Advs. with Mr. Mohit Goel, Mr. Sidhant Goel, Mr. Deepankar Mishra, Mr. Karmanya Dev Sharma, Mr. Aditya Goel, Mrs. Namrata Sinha and Mr. Love Virvani, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL % JUDGMENT 01.07.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. RFA(OS)(COMM) 11/2025 Signature Not Verified Page 1 of 127 Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR Signing Date:01.07.2025 13:29:56 CM APPL. 26455/2025 Facilitative Index to the Judgment S. No. Subject Para Nos 1 Opening para 1 2 A prefatory note 2–5 3 Appellant’s submission in a nutshell 6–8 4 The lis 9 – 18 5 Rival pleadings in the suit 19 - 33 6 The plaint 20 – 30 7 Replication of Lifestyle to written statement of 31 – 33 Cloudtail 8 Related contentions of learned Senior Counsel 34 – 36 for Amazon Tech 9 Trajectory of the suit before the learned Single 37 – 38 Judge 10 The impugned judgment 39 – 56 11 Rival Submissions before us 12 Submissions of Mr. Arvind Nigam 13 A No infringement by Amazon Tech 57 – 64 14 B Order dated 2 March 2023 65 – 67 15 C Re. apparent error in para 9 of impugned 68 judgment 16 D Damages claimed could not have been 69 – 74 enhanced without amendment, merely on the basis of evidence led during trial and in written submissions – itself insufficient to