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Intellectual property rights exhaustion—Opposite viewpoints: United States/Europe: Silhouette International v. Hartlauer & Quality King Distributors v. L'anza Research International
Author(s) -
Tancer Robert S.,
MosseriMarlio Claude
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.10112
Subject(s) - intellectual property , viewpoints , supreme court , economic justice , political science , law , quality (philosophy) , european union , law and economics , sociology , economics , international trade , philosophy , art , epistemology , visual arts
This article considers two recent opinions, one of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the other of the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates. Both deal with the exhaustion of intellectual property rights, but the results and underlying reasoning clearly conflict. In this briefarticle, we attempt to discuss these cases and suggest some reasons for the different results. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.