Civil action against any infringer of Trade Mark, initiates with filing of a Suit for infringement at a District Court. The Court may grant ex-parte Injunctions, restraining the Defendant, his agents, servants or anyone claiming through or under them from infringing a Trade Mark under section 135 of Trade Marks Act 1999. The advantage of an infringement action is that it can be filed at the place where the Plaintiff resides or carries on business under Section 134(2) of the Trademarks Act, 1999.  The Plaintiff is not required to go to the venue of the Defendant to institute the suit.

Passing off is a common law remedy available to any person who is the proprietor of a trademark that is unregistered and is being misused.  The person aggrieved may approach the appropriate court to seek the remedy of permanent injunction restraining the Defendant or anyone claiming through or under him from passing off his goods, services or business as those of others.  Passing off is a tort of deceit and it is sufficient if the Plaintiff before the Court is able to establish the guilty intention in the adoption of the deceptively similar trademark to obtain an order of interim injunction.

The patentee may get the relief of permanent injunction when there is an infringement of his patent by filing a civil suit in a District Court. The reliefs which a Court may grant in any suit for infringement include an injunction and, at the option of the plaintiff, either damages or an account of profits under section 108 of the Patents Act, 1970.The Court may also order that the goods which are found to be infringing and materials and implements, the predominant use of which is in the creation of infringing goods shall be seized, forfeited or destroyed, without payment of any compensation.

Where copyright in any work has been infringed, the owner of the copyright shall, entitled to remedies by way of injunction, damages, accounts and otherwise as are or may be conferred by the Copyright Act, 1957

The civil remedies available against infringement of design are an injunction, damages, or compensation and delivery up of infringing articles. There is no provision for criminal proceedings against piracy of designs.