The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA

Baltic Journal of European Studies Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI:10.1515/bjes-2016-0011

S. Dobrin, Archil Chochia

引用次数: 14

Abstract

Abstract The article intends to analyze the closely correlated concepts of trademark exhaustion and parallel imports. The growing importance of these concepts in the current world, especially in the European Union, makes it an interesting research topic, even though the concepts are complicated due to their nature and different actors involved. The authors use comparative approach, concentrating on two world leaders in the field, in order to discover what is the approach of the EU as well as the approach of the USA to the concepts of trademark exhaustion and parallel imports, what are the benefits and weaknesses of these approaches, and analyze why these markets have arrived at certain conclusions.

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商标穷竭概念与平行进口:欧盟与美国的比较分析

摘要本文拟对商标权利用尽与平行进口这两个密切相关的概念进行分析。这些概念在当今世界，特别是在欧盟日益重要，使其成为一个有趣的研究课题，尽管这些概念由于其性质和涉及的不同参与者而变得复杂。作者使用比较的方法，集中在两个世界领先的领域，以发现欧盟的做法是什么，以及美国的做法，商标用尽和平行进口的概念，这些方法的优点和缺点是什么，并分析为什么这些市场已经得出了一定的结论。

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期刊介绍： Baltic Journal of European Studies (abbreviation BJES) is a semiannual double blind peer-reviewed international research journal (formerly known as Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies) with an international editorial office and extensive international editorial board, abstracted in EBSCO and other relevant databases.The scope of the journal comprises a wide spectrum of social, political, economic and cultural issues related to recent developments in the European Union and its member states.