Silhouette International Schmied GmbH & Co KG v Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH

Subject Matter

TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Exhaustion — Goods marketed outside European Economic Area and re-imported into Community country — Action for injunction on sale in Community under proprietor's mark — National legislation providing for international exhaustion of proprietor's rights — Whether precluded by Community Directive — Whether injunction obtainable under provision of Directive — Council Directive (89/104/EEC) (as amended by Agreement on European Economic Area), art 7(1)

[1999] Ch 77; [1998] 3 WLR 1218