Plaintiff in a trademark passing-off suit filed by the Institute for Financial Management and Research against multiple defendants seeking injunctions and damages applied to withdraw the suit; the court dismissed the suit as withdrawn.
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C.S.No.819 of 2014
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED 30.10.2023
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE ABDUL QUDDHOSE
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Institute for Financial Management and Research, rep. by its Registrar
.. Plaintiff
/versus/
Prayer: Civil Suit has been filed under Order VII, Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure read with Order IV Rule 1 of the Original Side Rules read with Section 135 of the Trade Marks Act, 1909 prays for a judgment and decree against the defendants as follows:
a)by granting a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, its business associate, servants, agents, representatives, successors or any of them from in manner promoting selling any projects or services in any manner enabling to pass-off defendants' projects or services as that of the plaintiff's by using words which are deceptively similar to the plaintiff's
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name namely CIRM in any manner and anywhere in India including the City of Chennai;
b)For Mandatory injunction directing the defendants to desist and cease usage of the name 'CIRM' by giving a public notice to such effect;
c)To award damages of Rs.17,00,000/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs only) to the plaintiff for the loss caused to the plaintiff due to the deceptive use of the plaintiff's name by the defendant;
d)To pass a preliminary decree in favour of the plaintiff directing the defendants to render the profits made by use of the name CIRM in the research projects similar to the name of the plaintiff and final decree may be passed in favour of the plaintiff awarding the amount of profits thus found to have been made by the defendants.
For Plaintiff : Ms.Rohini Ravikumar
J U D G M E N T
Learned counsel for the plaintiff seeks permission of this Court to
withdraw the suit. He has also made an endorsement in the court bundle
to that effect. Accordingly, this suit is dismissed as withdrawn. No costs.
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Institute for Financial Management and Research
Rupalee Ruchismita
CIRM Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd.
CIRM Design and Research Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Abdul Quddhose
As recorded by the court registry
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