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The Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rejects International Exhaustion in Patent Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Alessandro L. Celli  and
Michael Hyzik
Michael Hyzik
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Dr. iur. Alessandro L. Celli heads the intellectual property department of the Swiss law firm Froriep Renggli. Dr. iur. Michael Hyzik is an associate of Froriep Renggli.
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European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 175 - 183
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2001

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2 Bundesgericht, , Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts, 124 III 321.Google Scholar

3 Swiss jurisdiction and doctrine are aware that there is an international debate on the question whether Art. 6 TRIPS excludes the exhaustion issue from the scope of the agreement in general or if it applies only to dispute settlement proceedings; cf. Bollinger, , “Die Regelung der Parallelimporte im Recht der WTO”, Sic! – Zeitschrift für Immaterialgüter-, Informations- und Wettbewerbsrecht (1998) 546.Google Scholar

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7 Ibid., at pp. 300 et seq.

8 Bundesgericht, , Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts, BGE 126 III 129.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., at para. 2.

10 Ibid., at paras. 2 and 3.

11 Ibid., at para. 5 (a).

12 Ibid., at para. 6.

13 Ibid., at para. 7.

14 Ibid., at para. 8.

15 Rauber, , “Parallelimporte zwischen Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht: eine Übersicht”, in: Rauber, (ed.), Parallelimport im Schnittstellenbereich zwischen lmmaterialgüter-und Wettbewerbsrecht (Zürich: Schulthess 2000) 1.Google Scholar

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17 Bundesgericht, supra n. 8, at para. 9 (a) and (b).

18 Rauber, supra n. 15, at p. 25.

19 Ibid., at p. 24.

20 Bundesgericht, supra n. 8, at para. 9 (c).

21 Ibid., at para. 9 (c).

22 Rauber, supra n. 15, at p. 24.

23 Ibid., at p. 26.

24 See the report on the debate in Neue Züricher Zeitung, 28 September 2000, 13.

25 This was stated by the Government when approving a report on the parallel import issue, which was ordered by a parliamentary commission after the Kodak decision, see <www.admin.ch/cp/d/393501c2.0fwsrvg.bfi.admin.ch.html>.

26 Tages Anzeiger, 1 March 2000, 31.

27 Zäch, , “Parallelimporte patentrechtlich geschützter Güter nach Massgabe des Kartellgesetzes”, Sic! – Zeitschrift für Immaterialgüter-, Informations- und Wettbewerbsrecht (2000) 275 at pp. 279 et seq.Google Scholar

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