New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- The Delhi high court has awarded Rs.20 lakh as damages to Castrol India Ltd, a manufacturer of automobile lubricants, in a trade mark infringement suit filed by the former against two oil manufacturers, for infringing its marks ACTIV, ACTIBOND.
A bench of justice Mini Pushkarna in her February 18 order, released on Monday, said that the two manufacturers producing and selling oil, under the brand of Kapil Auto Workshop and Makkvoll Lubricants, deliberately attempted to mislead the consumers with regards to the true identity and association of the goods by using an identical colour scheme, get up and layout of the products.
The manufacturers, justice Pushkarna said, were actively marketing its products under Castrol's...