People say that the world isn’t “black and white”; that there are many shades in between, of which, the grey areas usually raise difficult questions. This belief applies even in the world of Intellectual Property Rights. Parallel imports i.e. lawful import of a genuine trademarked product without the permission of the proprietor thereby creating a trade channel that runs parallel to the proprietors authorized trade channel, is usually called a ‘grey market’ import (see here). Such imports are not ‘black’...
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