The issue of parallel imports with respect to the Indian Copyright Law involves an interplay of the three doctrines of distribution rights of the copyright owner, the hypothetical manufacture test and the divisibility of copyright. This article examines the statutory provisions involving these...

The Trademarks Act, 1999 through Section 30 contain specific provisions dealing with the exhaustion of rights, the courts have granted injunctions preventing parallel imports of trademark goods. A common feature of these suits have been not the violation of the Trademark Act but the allegation...

Parallel imports are genuine products brought into a country without the authorization of the copyright, patent, or trademark owner. Countries vary considerably in their legal treatment of parallel imports, as determined by their choice of exhaustion doctrine. A new model analyzes parallel...