SHANGHAI — From the latest designer fashion to the most cutting-edge high-tech products, China's increasingly open market has brought the world's best goods to it doorstep. Through the ...

The term ‘parallel import’ is a new concept in economics literature. However, in international business literature and law, parallel importing has been much discussed since the mid-1980s. The thorny ...

Parallel imports in Russia were once subject to the same treatment as counterfeit goods – but the golden age is over, as a compromise has been struck with regard to the national exhaustion of rights.

Russia’s parallel imports of Western goods fell sharply in 2025 as tighter government controls and border disruptions narrowed a key supply channel created after Western companies exited the market, ...

The realm of intellectual property, particularly in the context of parallel imports, is a labyrinth of legal intricacies. This article endeavours to demystify the contentious issue of trademark ...

The authorities are reducing the flow of parallel imports to the Russian Federation, Izvestia has learned. Previously, the Ministry of Industry and Trade allowed businesses to import entire categories ...

A lot of controversy was stirred up in China along with the humungous prices some manufacturers practice in the communist country. Compared to the prices in the US, the Chinese often have to pay up to ...

Despite the lack of current law, IP owners are not helpless against parallel imports into Myanmar. They just have to be a bit more ingenious with their prevention strategies, explains Alec Christie ...

Adolfo Athié and Eduardo Kleinberg of Basham Ringe & Correa explain the concept of exhaustion, and examines how it applies to patent, trade mark and copyright assets in Mexico Exhaustion of rights in ...