[Trademark] Osaka High Court, Case No. 2024 (Ne) 1885

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Topics: Licensing / Exhaustion and parallel imports

Published on this website: 2026-09-29

[Trademark] Osaka High Court, Case No. 2024 (Ne) 1885

[MAJESTY] (Presiding Judge Morisaki)

<Sale of the defendant's products manufactured by another company, as they are>

The first-instance defendant Marushu purchased them from Erimu Trading with hangtags bearing the defendant's mark attached, and that sale itself does not constitute trademark infringement.

<Sale of the defendant's products manufactured by another company with packaging boxes bearing the defendant's mark added>

Because Erimu Trading had not been granted the authority to sublicense to the first-instance defendant Marushu, this constitutes trademark infringement.

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