Gujarat HC restrains Cello from launching Symphony look-alike air coolers

Ahmedabad

India’s largest air cooler company, Symphony Ltd, has received a stay order from the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad against Wim Plast Limited which is launching ‘Cello’ air cooler models in India which are similar to the registered designs of Symphony Ltd models Winter, Sumo, Diet and Hicool.

High Court of Gujarat order clearly states, “By way of ad-interim relief, the respondents (Cello) are restrained from marketing, selling, advertising and directly or indirectly dealing in air coolers which have the same design, shape, configuration and design identical to and/or imitation of the petitioner’s (Symphony) designs of models Winter, Sumo, Diet and Hicool.”

It was pointed out to the High Court that Wim Plast’s ‘Mega Cool’ model is more or less identical to Symphony’s ‘Winter’ model, its ‘Maxi Cool’ model is similar to Symphony’s ‘Sumo’ model, while another ‘Ever Cool’ model is identical to Symphony’s ‘Diet’ model and ‘Ultra Cool’ model was a copy-cat of Symphony’s ‘Hi-Cool’ model.

Symphony in a statement said, “we will continue to take recourse to every legal option available to it to stop Wim Plast from launching, marketing, selling or advertising Cello air cooler models in India which are copy-cats of Symphony’s range of air coolers. Symphony will leave no stone unturned to ensure that its intellectual properties are protected and will take necessary legal action against all individuals and/or companies that infringe upon its intellectual properties.”