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

• Authors: Samuel Dobrin , Archil Chochia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

EU Law; European Union; parallel imports; trademark exhaustion; USA

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of European Studies
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 28-57

Dates

published

2016-10-01

online

2016-10-20

Contributors

author

Samuel Dobrin

• University Bildstensvägen 4H-2, Lund 226 54,

author

Archil Chochia

• Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology Akadeemia tee 3, Tallinn 12618,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjes-2016-0011