New Delhi (PTI): In a reprieve to the US automotive giant ABRO, the Delhi High Court has restrained local manufacturers from making and selling spurious products under the ABRO trademark.

"The illegal and unlawful activities of the defendants (local manufacturers) and defendants' selling and passing off their spurious/sub-standard products as the products of the plaintiff (ABRO) have resulted in creating confusion in the minds of the public at large and have caused loss and damage to the reputation of plaintiff," Justice Reva Khetrapal said.

The interim order was passed on a petition filed by the US company ABRO through its counsels R S Mittal and Rayner Vishal Dass of the corporate law firm Titus and Co seeking injunction restraining eight local firms from infringing the registered trademark 'ABRO'.