The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-8a157f6072da41788ed0e58173e242952022-12-21T23:34:35ZengSciendoBaltic Journal of European studies2228-05962016-10-0162285710.1515/bjes-2016-0011bjes-2016-0011The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USADobrin Samuel0Chochia Archil1University Bildstensvägen 4H-2, Lund 226 54, SwedenTallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology Akadeemia tee 3, Tallinn 12618, EstoniaThe 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.https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2016-0011eu laweuropean unionparallel importstrademark exhaustionusa |
| spellingShingle | Dobrin Samuel Chochia Archil The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA Baltic Journal of European studies eu law european union parallel imports trademark exhaustion usa |
| title | The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA |
| title_full | The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA |
| title_fullStr | The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA |
| title_short | The Concepts of Trademark Exhaustion and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Analysis between the EU and the USA |
| title_sort | concepts of trademark exhaustion and parallel imports a comparative analysis between the eu and the usa |
| topic | eu law european union parallel imports trademark exhaustion usa |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2016-0011 |
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