The Madras High Court on Tuesday (November 25, 2025) refused to restrain costume designer Joy Crizildaa, who claims to have married one of the directors of popular catering company Madhampatty Thangavelu Hospitality Private Limited, from using the name of the unregistered trademark ‘Madhampatty Pakashala’ as a hashtag in her social media posts due to a personal dispute between the two individuals.
Justice N. Senthilkumar dismissed the interim injunction application, which sought to restrain her from tagging, hashtagging, making, writing, uploading, publishing, broadcasting, distributing, posting, circulating or disseminating any false or malicious material, statements, videos, reels, captions or photographs disparaging the “goodwill” of the trademark Madhampatty Pakashala.
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The judge agreed with senior counsel S. Prabakaran, representing Ms. Crizildaa, that the plaintiff company was not entitled to any kind of interim relief since it had failed to establish that his client was hashtagging the name of Madhampatty with the intention of causing injury to the catering business and that the company had, in fact, suffered revenue loss as a result of her action.
