| 释义 |
exhaustion of rights
A free-trade principle which holds that, once goods are put on the market, owners of intellectual property rights in those goods, who made the goods or allowed others to do so under their rights, may not use national intellectual property rights to prevent an import or export of the goods. Within the EU these rules derive from Articles 34-36 (previously 28–30 and before that 30–36) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. After Brexit, the UK has new rules that retain the principle in relation to imports from the European Economic Area (Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019); however, the EEA does not do the same in relation to exports from the UK to the EEA.See also free movement. |