平行进口法律规制的再思考——以知识产权独占许可为视角

Rethinking on the Legal Regulation of Parallel Imports——from the perspective of exclusive license of intellectual property rights

对平行进口的法律规制争议不断,这一方面是由于其类型的多样性及由此带来的权利冲突和利益纷争的复杂性,另一方面是由于以传统的知识产权理论即权利用尽原则与地域性原则为基础解决平行进口问题所遇到的理论内部的矛盾性及由此决定的现实意义的有限性。从知识产权独占许可的视角分析由平行进口所引发的利益失衡可以为我们研究平行进口的法律规制提供新的思考路径。

Controversies over legal regulation of parallel imports have been constant. For one thing, it is because of the diversity of parallel imports and the deriving complexity of rights conflict and interests contest. For another, it is due to the theoretic contradiction and limitation of practical significance when doctrine on exhaustion of rights and territoriality as traditional theory of intellectual property is applied as the basis to deal with parallel imports. Analyzing the imbalance of interests as a result of parallel imports from the perspective of exclusive license of intellectual property rights may we gain a new thinking for re- search on legal regulation of parallel imports.