- Court
- Madras High Court
- Date of judgment
- Judge
- Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy C. S
- Outcome
- Dismissed
Headnote
Suit for copyright infringement in tractor engineering drawings dismissed after trial, each party bearing its own costs. The Court held on the evidence that the drawings met the requirement of originality under the Copyright Act and that the plaintiff was entitled to be recognised as their author, and on that footing rejected the objection that the suit failed for non-joinder of the foreign parent. The suit nevertheless failed on the critical question of copying: the plaintiff did not establish that the defendant had copied its drawings, and the remedies claimed for copyright infringement therefore did not arise.
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