.Three Indian brothers, Chandru Ganglani, the Managing Director, Bharat Ganglani and Trishul Ganglani who are directors of a plastic company, Sacvin Nigeria Limited, were this morning sentenced to one month imprisonment without an option of fine by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria for disobeying the order of the court.
Sometime in June 2009, the plaintiff discovered that Sacvin Nigeria Company were actively selling in Nigeria plastic products with the design of Sacvin not being the products of the plaintiff but closely resembling and identical in design to the plaintiff’s products. Thereafter, the plaintiff’s company was experiencing difficulties in sales as a result of the defendants’ company’s infringement.
Consequently, VIK company was incurring serious financial loss on daily basis. The company then instituted a legal action against Sacvin Company. On 9 July, 2009, the court made an interim order restraining Sacvin Company from any act of engaging in the trade or business of manufacturing and selling or distributing the plastic products with Sacvin logo.
However, Sacvin Company directors, according to a lawyer from the Femi Pinheiro’s chambers, Chukwudi Enebeli, disobeyed the court order with impunity, and engaged in manufacturing, importing, supplying, selling and distributing the plastic products of Sacvin plastic products which are identical to the defendants’ products and thus making the public to believe that the plastic products are the same as the applicant’s product.
The counsel therefore urged the court to commit them to prison for disobeying the order of the court, urging that if not they will persist in disobeying the order of the court. Justice Tsoho therefore sentenced the three Indians to a month imprisonment for them to purge themselves of the contempt. SOURCE;PMnews
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