Case filed against hotel owners over trademark issue

Tirupur: The city police have registered a case against Tirupur Sree Annapoorna Hotel for misusing the registered trademark 'Sree Annapoorna'.

The FIR was registered under various sections in including the Trademarks Act, 1999, as the establishment failed to comply the court order of not using the brand name, which was registered by Coimbatore-based hotel chain Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar.

As per the complaint lodged by Jegan S Damodharasamy, executive director of the hotel chain, it has spent huge sum of money in advertising their brand. The brand is easily recognised by the people, the complaint said.

In Tirupur, Venkatesh Dheenadayalan and Vasanthi had started a hotel and named it Tirupur Sree Annapoorna Hotel. They used the trademark with the same font used by the hotel chain, said the complaint.