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Petitioner / Claimant (Plaintiff)
Needle Industries (India) Limited
Respondent / Defendant
Sanjay Jaiswal And Ors.
Dispute Summary
The Madras High Court ruled in favor of Needle Industries, upholding an injunction against the defendants for passing off. The court found that despite the defendant obtaining a trademark registration for 'Pony' in the class of sewing threads (Class 23), this registration did not grant immunity from a passing-off action. Given that needles and sewing threads are cognate goods sold through the same trade channels, the use of the plaintiff's well-known mark by the defendants was deemed to cause near-certain confusion and ride on the established goodwill.
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