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Author Grigoriadis, Lazaros G., author

Title Trade marks and free trade : a global analysis / Lazaros G. Grigoriadis
Published Cham : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 510 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Exhaustion of trade mark rights and legality of parallel imports under GATT/WTO Law -- Part III: Exhaustion of trade mark rights and legality of parallel imports under European Union law -- Part IV: Exhaustion of trade mark rights and legality of parallel imports in national laws outside the European Economic Area -- Part V: Conclusion
Summary This book is the first study to examine the issue of the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods under the most important legal systems on an international level, namely under GATT/WTO law, EU law and the laws of the ten major trading partners of the European Union. Part I consists of a general approach to the phenomenon of parallel importation and of a presentation of the theories that have been suggested to resolve the above-mentioned issue. The rule of exhaustion of rights, of which there are three types (rule of national, regional and international exhaustion of rights), is proposed as the most effective instrument to deal with the issue in question. Part II examines the question of exhaustion of trademark rights in light of the provisions of GATT/WTO Law. Part III analyzes the elements of the EU provisions on exhaustion of trademark rights (Articles 7 of Directive 2008/95/EC and 13 of Regulation (EC) 207/2009) and some specific issues relating to the application of these provisions. Part IV presents the regimes of exhaustion of trademark rights recognized in the European Union's current ten most significant trading partners. The book is the first legal study to welcome, in light of economic analysis, the approach adopted by GATT/WTO law and EU law to the question of the geographical scope of the exhaustion of the trademark rights rule. It includes all the case law developed on an international level on the issue of the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods and a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature concerning the phenomenon of parallel imports in general and the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods. All the views expressed in the book are based on the European Court of Justice's most recent case law and that of the courts of the most important trading partners of the European Union
Analysis intellectuele eigendomsrechten
intellectual property rights
internationaal recht
international law
recht
law
Europa
Europe
privaatrecht
private law
internationale economie
international economy
Law (General)
Recht (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 14, 2014)
Subject Trademarks (International law)
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Trademarks (International law)
European Union.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
World Trade Organization.
Trademarks.
Exhaustion of intellectual property rights.
Competition.
Parallel imports.
Intellectual property.
Free trade.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319047959
3319047957
3319047949
9783319047942