Delhi HC clears Nilkamal JV to sell Stella brand cooktops

The Delhi High Court has allowed Cambro-Nilkamal, a joint venture of Nilkamal Ltd, to sell induction cooktops under the brand name Stella, Stelladexin and other similar names.

Vacating a 2024 interim injunction order, Justice Amit Bansal said that the balance of convenience is in favour of Cambro-Nilkamal as grant of an interim injunction would prevent them from using the Stella marks, which have been used by Chinese firm Stella Industrial Co Ltd in India since 2013.

On the other hand, grant of interim injunction would create the monopoly in favour of Products and Ideas (India), which only imports the goods bearing the Stella Marks from Stella Industrial, it said, while vacating its last year’s order favouring the former.


Products and Ideas, a company dealing in commercial kitchen and bakery equipment in India, was selling commercial induction cooktops under the brand name Stelladexin. The Stelladexin mark was adopted by Stella Industrial Co, which had allowed Products and Ideas to use the brand name and authorised it to register the said trademark.

The court noted that just like Products and Ideas, the Nilkamal joint venture was also importing goods from the Chinese company through its authorised distributors and selling the same in India and the goods sold by the joint venture were genuine and original products of the Chinese company, imported and resold with full authorisation from Stella Industrial.