Discuss The Parallel Import And The Protection Of Intellectual Property In International Trade

With the development of global trade and economy, countries pays more attention to the communication and cooperation, in addition to the advancement of modern science and technology, countries lays more stress to the application and protection of intellectual property, which promote the commodity trade with intellectual property. This condition is bound to bring some questions that will not come up in domestic trade. Parallel import is one of this kind.With the deepgoing of our country's reform and opening-up, parallel import will bring more and more effect, while there's no stipulation of it in present laws, what's more, theory and practice don't agree with each other on it. This case will affect the healthy development of foreign economic trade. So we must take actions. This article aims to: bring up some advice and ideas on perfecting the legislation of intellectual import.The main body of this article is divided into five parts. The first part analyzes the concept , classification, and origin of parallel import. The second part discusses the character and relative doctrines of parallel import. The third, fourth and fifth part set forth the differences of parallel import in the field of trade mark, patent and copyright separately, and bring up some available countermeasures on the basis of studying the legislative and judicial experiences of foreign countries.