Hindustan Unilever Limited v. Kashi Vishwanath Enterprises
Case brief
What is this about?
consent terms; decree on admission; undertaking to Court; perpetual injunction; copyright infringement; artistic work; VIM artistic packaging; trade dress; passing off; dishwashing preparations; Exhibit C-1; Exhibit F; Court Receiver discharged without accounts; Receiver costs payable by Plaintiff within 8 days; refund of court fees; interim applications disposed; Hindustan Unilever Limited; Kashi Vishwanath Enterprises; Commercial IP Suit No. 465 of 2025; Bombay High Court Commercial Division; Sharmila U. Deshmukh
What did the court decide?
Suit decreed on admission in terms of the consent terms per prayer clauses (a) and (b): perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant from infringing the Plaintiff's copyright subsisting in the artistic work comprised in the VIM artistic packaging/trade dress (Exhibit C-1) and from manufacturing, selling or otherwise dealing in dishwashing preparations bearing the impugned or any imitative/reproduced packaging/trade dress (Exhibit F or substantial parts thereof) so as to pass off; refund of Court fees as per rules; Court Receiver discharged without passing of accounts with Receiver's costs payable by the Plaintiff within 8 days of demand.