https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277538 Section 15 of the Indian Merchandise Marks Act was read to make limitation run from the offence actually charged in the complaint, not from the first alleged infringement in a continuing course of conduct. The Court held that the statutory language was plain and could not be expanded to cover earlier similar infringements without express words, and it rejected a purposive construction that would depart from the text. It also noted that treating limitation as dependent on proving an earlier infringement would create practical difficulty and inconsistency. Limitation therefore begins with the specific prosecutable offence alleged in the complaint. en-us Tue, 01 Sep 1936 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:27:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277538 Section 15 of the Indian Merchandise Marks Act was read to make limitation run from the offence actually charged in the complaint, not from the first alleged infringement in a continuing course of conduct. The Court held that the statutory language was plain and could not be expanded to cover earlier similar infringements without express words, and it rejected a purposive construction that would depart from the text. It also noted that treating limitation as dependent on proving an earlier infringement would create practical difficulty and inconsistency. Limitation therefore begins with the specific prosecutable offence alleged in the complaint. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 01 Sep 1936 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277538