Subjects:

Intellectual Property Law

This important new edition explains the law relating to parallel imports, and gives details of how the law can be used to repel and facilitate parallel imports. The author discusses consent and the burden of proof after Davidoff and explains developments relating to how consent is given for extra-EU imports into the market, and offers detailed strategies on how best to resolve conflicts around parallel imports helping you to increase the value of your clients' IP rights and apply EU competition laws properly.

The new edition covers over 75 new cases relating to parallel imports so you can see the decisions made by the European Court of Justice and the national courts, and provides new guidance on using competition law as a shield against infringement actions. The author goes on to examine abuses of dominant positions, trademark harmonisation and the exhaustion of rights and explain how parallel importation relates to royalty collecting societies and trade associations, automobile and film distribution.

• Explains free movement and market integration in the EU
• Considers anti-competitive agreements
• Covers copyrights, designs, patents, seeds and semiconductors in relation to parallel imports
• Considers case law from the US, Australia and Japan for comparisons to EU law
• Reproduces the relevant legislation, regulations, directives, provisions and treaties