Roofing sheet manufacturer Royal Mabati Factory has been ordered to pay its rival Mabati Rolling Mills Sh2 million for breaching the latter's trademark.
At the centre of the contest is Mabati Rolling Mills' brand name "Versatile". Justice Wilfrida Okwany of the High Court also ordered Royal Mabati to stop using the name, and to destroy within 14 days all its colour-coated roofing sheets and tiles, branded with the name.