论中国(上海) 自由贸易区中的过境知识产权与平行进口问题
On the Issues concerning Intellectual Property in Transit Goods and Parallel Imports in China(Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone 론중국(상해) 자유무역구중적과경지식산권여평행진구문제
China(Shanghai)Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ) is a regional special economic zone established in accordance with China's domestic laws and regulation, which is categorized as a free trade zone (not a free trade area, FTZ). That means that it is small part territory of a country or an independent tariff zone in which the tariffs and trade quotas are abolished and the administrative intervention is limited to the minimum. One of Shanghai FTZ's functions is to facilitate goods to pass through the territory of a country or a tariff zone more quickly and unhindered, and in this process, the issues on intellectual property concerning transit good are unavoidable. The issues in this aspect contain two big ones: one is involving intellectual property issues of transit goods and the other is concerning parallel imports. As for the former, owing to the monitoring model of " outside the customs and within the boundary "in Shanghai FTZ, the transit goods may be transported into FTZ directly without customs inspection, and the ordinary measures of enforcing IP protection and customs detention will not be taken, and thus the infringement of IP will occur frequently, which has been demonstrated by the report "Controlling the Zone: Balancing Facilitation and Control to Combat Illicit Trade in the World’s Free Trade Zones" made by BASCAP of International Chamber of Commerce in May, 2013. Among all kinds of infringements, the following is the most serious: the outlaws take advantages of loose custom inspection to disguise the origins of the transit goods infringing intellectual property rights to make them legal products, and then to transport to other countries or regions. This makes it difficult to find the real situations of the products in the ports or customs of next countries, and further, the products can be sold in the market legitimately, which in a result does harm both to the intellectual property right holders and to the consumers. And the second most serious problem is that whether the goods infringing the IP right holder's interests in their origins when they are produced shall be regarded as illegal ones or not. The scholars take different opinions on this issue, and some uphold that on the basis one of the IP characteristics, that is, territoriality, they shall not be regarded as illegal ones only if they are not permitted to enter into the domestic market. However, according to our analysis, it may be more reasonable that under China's integrate sovereignty, they shall be regarded as illegal ones and shall be detained, though there are differences between FTZ and other regions. Furthermore, in order to establish a good fame of Shanghai FTZ and make it play active role in promoting the international trade system to grow more soundly, any illegal products shall be inspected and taken measures to. Meanwhile, besides the routine enforcement of IP laws, the administrative organs in Shanghai FTZ and the customs shall establish the information sharing mechanism to follow the track of the products to avoid IP infringement. As for parallel imports, according to Patent Law of China, parallel imports of patented products are allowed, and there is no exception in FTZ. In the fields of trademark and copyright, there are no clear provisions concerning their parallel imports, which may leave flexible room for FTZ to cope with the issues. Generally, in FTZ, the doctrine of "permission as the fundamental principle while prohibition as exceptions" shall be applied.
전북대학교 동북아법연구소 [Institute for North-East Asian Law]
설립연도
2007
분야
사회과학>법학
소개
전북대학교 동북아법연구소는 동북아법에 관한 국내외의 이론과 실제를 연구하고 교육하며, 그 결과를 발표하여 동북아법에 대한 이해의 증진과 동북아의 법률문화발전에 기여하기 위한 목적으로 2006년 7월 설립되었다.
서해안시대의 중심지역을 표방한 전라북도의 지리적 여건과 동북아시아의 여러 국가와의 인적 물적 교류가 확대되면서 그에 따른 여러 가지 법률문제가 발생됨에 따라 동북아시아의 지역적 특성을 고려한 법제도의 연구와 이들 국가와 거래하는 전북지역 자치단체와 기업에 대한 실질적 교육의 필요성이 대두되었다.
이러한 요청에 따라 법제도의 연구와 교육을 담당할 기관으로 전북지역 거점국립대학인 전북대학교가 동북아법연구소를 설립하게 되었고 전북 지방자치단체와 기업에 대한 교육과 자문프로그램을 운영하고 있다.