PARALLEL PACKAGING CAN BE BLOCKED WHEN DAMAGES ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER REPUTATIONS
October 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PARALLEL exporters of pharmaceuticals within the European Union (EU) can be blocked from changing packaging for selling in different member states if alterations could scupper sales by the original manufacturer. That is the conclusion of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general Eleanor Sharpston in a preliminary ruling in a case involving the Wellcome Foundation. It sought to prevent certain changes to packaging for medicines originally manufactured for the Greek market which a parallel exporter wanted to sell in Austria. Sharpston ...
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