MERCK PACKAGING CASE
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has ruled that national judicial inquiries within the EU and EFTA may approve applications to ban parallel medicine importers from reusing a manufacturer's trademark, while adding stripes to labelling to show the product is a re-export. Judges backed pharmaceuticals company Merck & Co in its fight against Norwegian parallel importer Paranova AS, although they stressed that each claim of this type by a medicines manufacturer would have to be "answered by (a) national court on the basis of relevant ...
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