Parallel imports and international trade

I I C

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 623-631

  Heath, Christopher ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND COMPETITION   (Germany)

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References (26)

1. CORNISH, "Intellectual Property" 661 (3rd ed., London 1996).
2. Decision of 9 October 1995, see this issue at 744.
3. Id.
4. Decision of 1 July 1997 - to appear in a future issue of IIC.
5. National Photograph Company of Australia Ltd. v. Menck [1911] 28 R.P.C. 229, 248.
6. Betts v. Willmott [1871] LR 6 Ch. App. 239.
7. 51 RGZ 139 - Duotal.
8. Negative: German Federal Supreme Court, Centrafarm and Dirk de Fluiter v. Eli Lilly & Co., 8 IIC 64 (1977) - Tylosin; REIMER, 1972 GRUR Int. 221;
9. BEIER, 1996 GRUR Int. 1;
10. BERNHARD & KRASSER, "Lehrbuch des Patentrechts" 582 (4th ed., 1986).
11. Positive: Tokyo High Court, 27 IIC 550 (1996) - BBS Wheels II;
12. KOPPENSTEINER, 1971 AWD 357;
13. HEATH, IP Asia, October 1995, 5.
14. Centrafarm B. V. and Adriaan de Peijper v. Sterling Drug Inc., 6 IIC 102 (1975) - Negram III.
15. Merck & Co. Inc. v. Stephar, 13 IIC 70 (1982) - Merck.
16. Id., for products that were imported from Italy, where they were produced with the consent of the patentee who had not obtained a patent there. Merck v. Primecrown [1997] 1 CMLR 83, to be published in IIC, in the case of voluntary marketing of patented products in Spain and Portugal, where at that time no patent rights could be obtained for pharmaceutical product inventions.
17. This has been argued by the German Federal Supreme Court in the Tylosin decision, supra note 8, and explicitly rejected by the Japanese Supreme Court, supra note 4.
18. See BEIER, 1 IIC 48 (1970).
19. LADAS, "Patents, Trademarks and Related Rights" 505 et seq. (1975).
20. Actes de la Conference de Bruxelles 311 (1901);
21. Actes de la Conference de Washington 22, 249 (1911).
22. COTTIER, 28 CMLR 383, 401 (1991).
23. BRONCKERS, 31 CMLR 1267 (1994);
24. STRAUS, in BEIER & SCHRICKER (eds.), "From GATT to TRIPs" 191 (1996).
25. Id. at 192.
26. See supra note 11.