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The matter has been referred to the director of public prosecutions for a decision on which court will hear the matter

“You must make time to go out of your way to understand people as people not just as lawyers or a line on a spreadsheet.”

The Trademark Tribunal sitting at the Trademark headquarters in Abuja on Thursday cancelled the registration and application of Domittila as a trademark by Anne Chioma Njemanze. In the ruling delivered by the Chief Registrar, Shafiu Adamu Yauri on Thursday, the tribunal said all the documents issued to Njemanze were issued by the Commission in error. The Federal Trademark Registry had fixed May 4 for a report of settlement in the dispute between actress Njemanze and veteran filmmaker, Zeb Ejiro over the rightful ownership of the ‘Domitilla’ brand.

  A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, South-West Nigeria has dismissed an ex parte application by a Nollywood actress, Ann Njemanze which sought an Anton Pillar order of the court in suit against veteran Nollywood movie maker, Zeb Ejiro, and his firm. An Anton Pillar order is an extraordinary form of injunctive relief which compels a defendant to permit a complainant to enter its property to search for and seize evidence and records, including electronic data and equipment. Its name is coined from the 1975 case of Anton Piller K.G.

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