https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274966 The Madras HC discussed the forum for a copyright infringement suit and the joinder of related trademark and passing off claims. It treated the Copyright Act's territorial rule as enlarging jurisdiction where the plaintiff carries on business within the court's limits, and held that the copyright suit was maintainable despite no separate pleading on the individual author at the interlocutory stage. It also applied the discretionary joinder power under the Letters Patent, emphasising convenience and avoidance of multiplicity of proceedings; because the claims arose from the same factual matrix involving the same label, packaging and business activity, leave to combine the causes of action was warranted and the composite suit could proceed. en-us Wed, 25 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:24:42 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274966 The Madras HC discussed the forum for a copyright infringement suit and the joinder of related trademark and passing off claims. It treated the Copyright Act's territorial rule as enlarging jurisdiction where the plaintiff carries on business within the court's limits, and held that the copyright suit was maintainable despite no separate pleading on the individual author at the interlocutory stage. It also applied the discretionary joinder power under the Letters Patent, emphasising convenience and avoidance of multiplicity of proceedings; because the claims arose from the same factual matrix involving the same label, packaging and business activity, leave to combine the causes of action was warranted and the composite suit could proceed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 25 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274966