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ECJ allows owners to block sale of goods bearing their trademarks within the EU

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A decision from 1998. While manufacturers are allowed to benefit from globalization, sourcing from cheaper countries and selling in more expensive ones, you are not. Arbitrage for me but not for thee.

i don't get this for book piracy. suppose a school text book is sold for $200. a small time photocopy shop will scan and resell for paper+labour at lets say $20.

people who "purchase" this book doesn't care about the paper quality and text alignment and other stuff. they just want to consume the text any way. Why won't the "official" publisher try to fight piracy by bringing their prices to $20? that way the shop owner wont have any incentive to outcompete them.

Before you say "costs", that is nonsense. you would make up for "costs" over the increased number of sales anyway so it really is about extracting more money rather than helping people learn.

same for goods i suppose. i want to wear shoes. why should i pay $2000 for nike shoes when their replicas are bought for $20 using same materials?

last year i purchased a jacket from a thrift store for basically free. that jacket had been a puma down fill one which must've cost a lot of cash in store, do i really care about "IP" when it comes to paying the least amount of money for something?

You're talking about pirated or counterfeit goods. But this ECJ decision is about perfectly legitimate goods, whose movement and trade the manufacturer wants to control even after they've sold them.

Thx for pointing this out. The gray market in Europe would mean, I buy a f.e. mobile phone that is provisioned for the spanish market. I pay much less than in, f.e. Germany. for the same thing. Also (re)importing won't be possible after the producer decides that his product can't be sold in Germany, thus, the gray market will be dead for the goods of other EU countries. Samsung will be the first

The black market is the shop where I wanna go and buy my things then.

And, if I see/hear about some trade marks doing so, NO BUY anymore. My family and my family's family are then lost customers.

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