Case Analysis: P. Sundaram v. Asia Match Company

This interim order on the issue of whether the respondent, based on the location of their branch office, can maintain the present suit within the territorial jurisdiction of the present Court, i.e., a question on the issue of the jurisdiction of the commercial division. The case originally was filed by Respondents in this case who are plaintiffs in the original suit.

The Respondent's main claim in the present application is that their trademark and copyright were being infringed by the applicants (Defendants in the original suit). The respondents were of the observation that the applicant was passing off under a deceptive similarity of his label to that of the respondent's original label. The applicant, however, hitting the angle of incorrect territorial jurisdiction in the original case has made an attempt to strike down the case of the Respondents. The applicant's claim was that the Respondents have wrongly claimed the territorial jurisdiction of the instant Court