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The Protection Of Industrial Property Rights In The European Economic Community, Ronald L. Smallwood
The Protection Of Industrial Property Rights In The European Economic Community, Ronald L. Smallwood
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This study of European Economic Community (EEC) industrial property rights discusses trademarks, patents, and copyrights. The legal foundation for the protection of these industrial property rights in the EEC is derived from article 36 of the EEC Treaty, which expressly allows an exception to the prohibition of restrictions against the free movement of goods within the EEC when justified by the protection of industrial property, and article 222, which encompasses the protection of industrial property in the Member States. Although decisions of the Court of Justice on industrial property rights are infrequent, their ramifications are significant throughout the Community since …