Questão jurídica principal
Whether the trademark law barred parallel imports of original branded goods from the same manufacturer
Decisão extraída
No. The international exhaustion principle applies in trademark law; lawful first marketing abroad exhausts the trademark right, and the appellant failed to show illicit first marketing or trademark misuse.
Fundamentação extraída
The court distinguished patent law from trademark law and reaffirmed the Channel case line: parallel imports do not in themselves impair the mark's distinctive function. Because the goods were original products from the same manufacturer and no illicit acquisition was shown, the appellant could not rely on trademark protection.