Court stops firm from selling HI-TI products

The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has stopped a trading company from promoting and marketing digital imaging technology in the local market.

In a four-page order, Judge Ralph Lee of QCRTC Branch 83 barred Aperture Trading Corp. from "promoting, marketing and selling" High Touch Imaging Technologies (HI-TI) products consisting of multi-combination digital photo printers used for the taking and printing of ID and passport size pictures.

The petition for preliminary injunction was filed by Photokina Marketing Corp., the exclusive distributor of HI-TI products in the country.

Photokina earlier filed a civil case against High Touch Imaging Technologies Inc. and Aperture Trading for enforcement of contract and damages which was sustained by the court.

The court also "enjoined Aperture Trading, its agents, representatives and assigns from promoting, marketing and selling HI-TI products in the Philippines; and from taking out any advertisement in any medium whether print, radio or television, to promote, market and sell HI-TI products in the Philippines."