PARALLEL IMPORTS IN PHARMACEUTICALS: …

1 PARALLEL IMPORTS IN PHARMACEUTICALS: implications FORCOMPETITION AND PRICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESK eith E. MaskusProfessor of EconomicsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderUCB 256, Boulder CO 80309-0256 Report to World Intellectual Property OrganizationUnder terms of Special Service AgreementDraft: April 200121. IntroductionParallel IMPORTS (PI), also called gray-market IMPORTS , are goods producedgenuinely under protection of a trademark, patent, or copyright, placed into circulation inone market, and then imported into a second market without the authorization of the localowner of the intellectual property right. This owner is typically a licensed local example, it is permissible for a trading firm to purchase quantities of prescriptiondrugs in Spain and import them into Sweden or Germany without the approval of thelocal distributor owning licensed patent rights. Indeed, rules of the internal market in theEuropean Union permit PARALLEL trade among those countries in virtually all goods.

1 PARALLEL IMPORTS IN PHARMACEUTICALS: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPETITION AND PRICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Keith E. Maskus Professor of Economics University of Colorado at Boulder

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