商标权平行进口的法律对策分析——以商标功能论为中心

知识产权产品的平行进口问题已成为国际贸易领域的重要问题之一。对此,我国学者大多将各类知识产权作为一个整体加以对待,并且多数都采用权利用尽原则来阐述相关的解决方案。但从日本的经验以及各类知识产权的不同性质来看,采用权利用尽原则来解决各类知识产权的平行进口问题并不妥当,特别是在商标权领域的平行进口中,商标功能论为我们提供了一个新的解决问题的思路。

On the Law Solutions to Solve the Trademark Parallel Imports of Intellectual Property——A Prospective of Trademark Function

The issue of the parallel imports of intellectual property has become one of the most important issues in international trade.On parallel imports,the most of scholars took the intellectual property as a whole,and thought that the solutions should be based on the theory about exhaustion of rights.However,the experiences from Japanese Court and the different characters among the different types of intellectual property suggest that those solutions are improper.The theory on the functions of trademark offers a new viewpoint to solve the problem.