Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has dismissed Facebook Incorporated and Facebook Ireland Limited appeal against the judgment of Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which ordered Facebook to pay N10m to Double Paws Enterprises for interference with its trademark.
The panel, headed by Justice Abdullahi Muhamud Bayero, dismissed the appeal for lack of merit and for being fundamentally flawed.
Double Paws Enterprise had sued the defendants in July 2017 at the Federal High Court in a suit marked: FHC/L/CS/1164/2017, through its counsel, Gideon Okebu, wherein plaintiff prayed for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, its agents, privies, assigns, successors in title and legal representatives from harassing, intimidating or interfering with its right to use the registered trademark; Pawsbook.com & Device.