tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7998733746894814547..comments2024-03-28T07:35:53.297+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Roundabout trade avoids trade mark infringement, says Court of AppealVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-85043743422657375852008-02-20T11:51:00.000+00:002008-02-20T11:51:00.000+00:00Yes, there is. A single world-wide price is fine ...Yes, there is. A single world-wide price is fine for the rich world. They pay less. But the poor world have to pay more. If it's music, this may not matter - if it's drugs, it's crucial. Why are drug companies unwilling to sell cheaply to developing countries? - because the goods return and take sales from them in first world markets.twr57https://www.blogger.com/profile/02330827817659112019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-58089191033414679362008-02-19T12:46:00.000+00:002008-02-19T12:46:00.000+00:00In the global economy is there any justifiable rea...In the global economy is there any justifiable reason left for not extending the principles of exhaustion of trade mark rights worldwide and not just as currently within the EU? It makes no senses that we in the UK should pay the most for iTunes downloads or that the US consumers has the most expensive drug prices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-52493945462242946672008-02-19T01:30:00.000+00:002008-02-19T01:30:00.000+00:00It was not out of legal necessity that the goods w...It was not out of legal necessity that the goods were shipped from Turkey to the UK. 8pm could have had the goods shipped to the US from Turkey. Having the goods shipped to the US from the UK, bearing a UK address (as the trial court found), gave the goods an added patina of acceptability and quality. The appeals court should not have ignored such shenanigans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-35965391228356259682008-02-18T13:49:00.000+00:002008-02-18T13:49:00.000+00:00It is indeed unfortunate that "dodgy" business mod...It is indeed unfortunate that "dodgy" business models are needed to allow consumers to get hold of the genuine goods at the best available price.<BR/>It all started to go wrong when trademarks started to take an Expansionist role in the control of trade when <I> Silhouette</I> confirmed European exhaustion in place of International Exhaustion and created the dodgy fortress Europe.Filemothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15735898485265104580noreply@blogger.com