{"id":236331,"date":"2000-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/universal-trading-co-vs-ms-hindustan-pencils-pvt-ltd-on-31-october-2000"},"modified":"2018-09-15T22:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:17:37","slug":"universal-trading-co-vs-ms-hindustan-pencils-pvt-ltd-on-31-october-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/universal-trading-co-vs-ms-hindustan-pencils-pvt-ltd-on-31-october-2000","title":{"rendered":"Universal Trading Co. vs M\/S. Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. &amp; &#8230; on 31 October, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Delhi High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Universal Trading Co. vs M\/S. Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. &amp; &#8230; on 31 October, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 88 (2000) DLT 729, 2001 (1) RAJ 397<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: A Kumar, A Sikri<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>A.K. Sikri, J,<\/p>\n<p>1.     This  appeal  is filed by appellants M\/s.  Universal  Trading  Company under  Section 72 (2) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 against  the  order dated  27th  February, 1999 passed by Copyright Board. By  the  said  order Copyright  Board has allowed the application of the respondent  herein  for rectification  of  copyright  registration in favour of  the  appellant  in registration Nos. A-30813\/80 and A-35887\/82 under Section 50 of the  Indian Copyright  Act, 1957. The events as stated by the appellants which  led  to the passing of the said order by the Board may be summarised at this stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.   The  appellants  were established on 1st January, 1974 and  have  been using the trade mark NATRAJ and device of NATRAJ in respect of Mathematical instruments\/geometrical boxes and water colour boxes since then continuously,  extensively, intensively and openly. The trade mark NATRAJ  is  registered under Registration No. 324345 dated 6th April 1977 in class 16 claiming user since 1st January, 1974 in respect of mathematical instruments and water  colour boxes. The label NATRAJ is also registered under  the  Indian Copyrights Act in the name of appellants vide Registration Nos.  A-30813\/80 and  A-35887\/82. Before registration of Trade Mark &#8220;NATRAJ&#8221;, it was  advertised  in  the Trade Marks Journal No. 716 dated 1st April,  1979  at  page No.1147.  The respondent(Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd.) filed  an  opposition against  the registration of Trade Mark &#8220;NATRAJ&#8221; under opposition No.  DEL-2995.  The  said opposition filed by the respondent was abandoned  on  27th February,  1981.  After completing the formalities, the  said  registration certificate of Trade Mark &#8220;NATRAJ&#8221; under No. 324345 in class 16 was granted to the appellants on 7th March, 1981. The respondent started  manufacturing geometrical boxes under the Trade Mark\/Label NATARAJ first time in the year 1982.  Feeling  aggrieved with the use of the mark &#8220;NATRAJ&#8221; in  respect  of geometrical boxes, the appellants immediately filed a suit No. 883 of  1982 against  the respondent in this Court. On 5th July, 1982, an  ex-parte  injunction was granted against the respondent restraining them from using the Trade  mark NATARAJ and device of NATARAJ in respect of geometrical  boxes. On  20th December, 1982 this Court passed a detailed order  and  restrained the respondents from using the mark and label NATARAJ in respect of geometrical  boxes till the disposal of the suit. The respondent filed an  appeal bearing  No.  FAO (OS) 43 of 1983 against the order  dated  20th  December, 1982.  On  6th May, 1983 the said appeal was dismissed by  Division  Bench.\n<\/p>\n<p>Aggrieved  by the said order, the respondents further filed  Special  Leave Petition  No. 15113\/1984 in the Supreme Court on 16th August, 1983  against the  said order passed by Division Bench of this Court which was also  dismissed. The respondent filed a Cancellation Petition bearing No. C.O. No. 2 of 1983 in this Court against the appellants for cancellation of registered trade  mark &#8220;NATRAJ&#8221; which was also dismissed by order dated 19th  October, 1984. Against this respondent filed FAO (OS) 6 of 1985 which was pending at the time matter was heard by the Copyright Board.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.   The  aforesaid facts relate to the registration of trade  mark  Natraj with device of Natraj in favour of the respondent under No. 324345 in class 16  granted on 7th March, 1981. As noted label Natraj was  also  registered under  Copyright  Act in the name of appellants vide registration  Nos.  A-30813\/80 and A-35887\/82, the respondent filed an application under  Section 50  of the Copyright Act for expunging entries in the  aforesaid  registration. By the impugned order dated 27th February, 1999 the Board has allowed the  application of the respondent herein ordering that register  of  Copy-rights  be  rectified by expunging the aforesaid entries in favour  of  the respondent  and granted compensatory costs to the respondent herein in  the sum  of  Rs.10,000\/-  for their agitating the  point  without  any  logical ground.  This  appeal is directed against the aforesaid  order  dated  27th February, 1999.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.   The  learned  counsel  for the appellants  made  detailed  submissions assailing  the aforesaid order of the Board while learned counsel  for  respondent sought to justify the same in his submissions. It is not necessary to state detailed submissions of the counsel for the parties on either side and  to  deal  with them because of the view which we  have  taken  in  the present  case. The learned counsel for the appellants had pointed out  that although  the Board has in para 10 of the impugned order noted the  submissions of the appellants herein to the effect that there were differences in the  artistic work of the appellants and the respondent and different  features  were highlighted as is clear from para 10 of the order  itself,  the Board while recording the findings did not deal with this aspect at all. We find force in this argument of the appellants. In para 10 of the order, the Board has observed that at the time of arguments, appellants herein pointed<br \/>\nout the minute differences in detail some of which are as under:-\n<\/p>\n<pre>      Pencil Box of petitioners     Geometrical Box of respondent\n(i)  Device of sitting child.      Does not contain\n(ii) Slogan-\"writes like a \n     champion Pencils\".            \"\n(iii)'NATRAJ' in yellow colour     In golden lacquer Colour\n(iv) Not straight lines            Straight lines\n(v)  No description Registered     Contains such descriptions\n     Trade and Copyright\n     Registration\n(vi) (R) is written after the      (R) is written on alphabet\n     letter 'J'\n(vii) Word 'NATARAJ' six letters   Word NATRAJ (five letters)\n(viii)Last letter 'J' of the word  This letter  'J' is\n     'NATARAJ' is of equal size    exceptionally of bigger size.\n(ix) Contains \"A quality product   Contains \"Mfrs by Universal\n     from \"HINDUSTAN PENCILS LTD\"  Trading Co., 26\/5 Shakti Nagar\n     Delhi.\n(x)  Does not contain the word     Contains the word \"ORIGINAL\"\n     'original'\n(xi) Does not contain the words    Contains \"Satyam, Shivam,\n     \"Satyam, Shivam Sunderam\".    Sunderam\" in Hindi Language.\n(xii)The major background is of    There is an impressive panel\n     red colour.                   of entire blue colour.\n\n \n\n<\/pre>\n<p>5.   However,  the order thereafter does not deal with this submission.  It  is  the submission of the appellants that artistic work of  the  appellants appearing  on  its geometrical boxes is materially different from  the  respondent appearing on their pencil boxes. The Board has proceeded with  the assumption  that  the  work of the appellants is the same as  that  of  the respondent.  While concluding this in para 15 of the impugned order,  there is  no discussion of the various dissimilarities alleged by the  appellants in its submissions. It was also pointed out that the Copyright Board failed to  deal with yet another important aspect namely prior adoption of  device of Natraj by M\/s Jai Dayal Kapur Distributing Company. Agreeing with  these submissions  of  the  appellants, we set aside the impugned  order  of  the Copyright  Board and remand the case back to the Board to decide  the  same afresh after dealing with various contentions of the appellants herein.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.   We  may point out that counsel for appellants had tried to argue  that various  observations  made by the Copyright Board in other  parts  of  the impugned order which are also factually and legally incorrect and Copyright Board  had also relied upon unproved documents. On the other hand,  it  was argued  by  learned counsel for the respondent herein that  the  conclusion arrived at by the Copyright Board is correct in law and there was  material in abundance to suggest that appellants are not the author of the  artistic work in question and the respondent is the earlier registered owner as well as  earlier  user of the said artistic work which is copied by  the  appellants.  Since  we are remanding the case back to the  Copyright  Board  for fresh  adjudication of the matter, it would be open to both the parties  to make the submissions in respect of their respective cases before the  Copy-right  Board and we are sure that the Copyright Board would deal  with  all these submissions while disposing of the application filed by the  respondent herein under Section 50 of the Copyright Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>7.   In the result, this appeal succeeds. Impugned order dated 27th  February,  1999 passed by the Copyright Board is set aside. Matter  is  remanded back  to the Copyright Board for fresh adjudication. In the peculiar  facts and circumstances of this case, we pass no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court Universal Trading Co. vs M\/S. Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. &amp; &#8230; on 31 October, 2000 Equivalent citations: 88 (2000) DLT 729, 2001 (1) RAJ 397 Bench: A Kumar, A Sikri ORDER A.K. Sikri, J, 1. 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