试论相同商标商品的平行进口问题

Parallel Import of the Commodities with the Same Brand

相同商标商品平行进口是商标权的地域性特点和国际贸易的跨国性特点相冲突而产生的新问题。与相同商标商品平行进口相关的是商标权穷竭理论,在国际贸易中能否适用这一原则,是一个尚存争议的问题,这已成为相同商标商品平行进口合法性争议的焦点。由于对商标权穷竭问题的态度不同,各国对相同商标商品的平行进口是否构成商标侵权的认定存在着较大的差异。我国对相同商标商品的平行进口原则上应当允许,但也要规定例外情况。

The parallel import of the commodities with the same brand is a new issue resulted from the conflict between the regionalism of the trademark rights and cross nationalism of international trade. The question under debate was the applicability and legitimacy of the principle of the exhaustion of trademark rights to international trade. With different countries adopting different approaches to the issue of the parallel import of the commodities with the same brand, there is a wide discrepancy between the legitimacy of the import and violation of the principle. China should allow the parallel import of the commodities with the same brand, while providing the regulations and rules over the extraordinary cases.