We, at R.K. Dewan & Co. believe in spreading awareness about protection of IP rights and have constantly worked in this direction. Recently, a Mumbai based IPR law firm through its website was infringing our IP rights. This law firm had reproduced the contents of our website on their own webpage and projected it as their own content. The amusing part is that in their attempt to copy our content they forgot to change the name of the law firm from "RK Dewan"/ "RKD" to that of their firm.
When we became aware of this blatant infringement our rights we acted immediately and filed a Trademark and Copyright infringement suit before the Hon'ble Pune District Court on 13th January, 2016 and asked for an order of injunction against the infringers. The matter was heard on 21st January, 2016 and on the same day an ex-parte ad-interim injunction order was passed in our favor thereby injuncting the other party from further infringing our IP rights. We sent the order of the Hon'ble Court to the other party on receipt of which the counsel for the other side approached us for a compromise. On 4th February, 2016 an order for permanent injunction against the infringing party was passed by the Hon'ble Court.
In less than a month's time our firm succeeded in obtaining a permanent injunction order against the infringer and also, a written assurance from the infringer stating that no such act of infringement will be committed by them in future. As IP attorneys and ourselves, content creators, we understand the value of Intellectual Property rights and the need to take immediate legal actions against such perpetrators of law. The Hon'ble Judge, upon the establishment of a case of infringement, immediately passed an order for ad-interim injunction thereby reflecting the positive approach of the judiciary in deciding IP related matters. This shows that our courts are warming up to the idea of protecting Intellectual Property rights; one can only hope that it gets better from here.
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