“Exhaustion of intellectual property rights” means that right holders lose the right to control the resale of the protected goods. Without an exhaustion doctrine IPR holders would perpetually exercise control over the sale, transfer or use of the relevant goods, and would have a grip on...

Opinion 1/09 of the Advocate General, Juliane Kokott, 2 July 2010. The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has found that the EU centralized patent litigation system recently proposed by the Council of the European Union does not comply with EU law. In her...

This article addresses the EC legislation on customs action against goods suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) and in particular Council regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003. Preliminarily, it deals with the impact of counterfeiting activity and the ways counterfeit...