No Passport for Trademark Exhaustion – Delhi HC Resets the Rules

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When a Chinese manufacturer’s Indian agent registers the STELLADEXIN trademark and the manufacturer later authorises a rival to sell the same cookers in India, who can claim infringement? The Delhi High Court Division Bench answers that question and, in doing so, resets the limits of international exhaustion and prior user under Indian trademark law.

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