If nothing else, you have to admire Brendan Battles’ gall.

On Monday, as first reported by NBR, Yellow Pages Group and its Finda subsidiary won an interim injunction, pending a full trial, which prevented Image Group Marketing (IMG) from selling a $6500 business database.

At the High Court in Auckland this morning, Yellow gained an injunction against Image Marketing Group (IMG), which it accuses of selling a pirated version of its database.

Justice Woodhouse granted the injunction, pending a full trial, after IMG failed to defend itself at the hearing. In a fax, the company said it had been unable to find funds to engage a lawyer. 

Yellow - owner of the The Yellow Pages in print, the yellow.co.nz website and the 018 calling service - claims that IMG illegally obtained around 315,000 business names featured in its directory.