On June 22, 2022, the Hon’ble High Court of Madras delivered a judgment in favour of Saint-Gobain Glass France (“Plaintiff”) in a patent infringement case against infringer M/s. Harsha Exito Engineering (P) Ltd (“Defendant”).
The suit [Civil Suit (Comm. Div) No.409 of 2019] was filed in June, 2019 by the Plaintiff under Section 104 of the Patents Act, 1970 praying for permanent injunction against the Defendant, its officers, Directors, Agents, Distributors and Customers restraining them from using, employing, manufacturing, assembling, selling, offering for sale, advertising including through their and third party websites, products, devices and systems that are used for installation of glass panels, so as to result in infringement of Indian Patent No.305596 (“Suit Patent”), until the Defendant has procured appropriate licenses and permissions from Plaintiff; (ii) delivery of infringing components/ elements, semi-manufactured products/parts, products, devices and systems manufactured using the patented technology, devices and systems including packaging, labels, brochures and other printed material for the purposes of destruction; (iii) damages in respect of use, manufacture, sale, export, import or any other infringing activity in relation to products, that infringes the suit Patent and (iv) for the costs of the suit.