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UK Supreme Court upholds Oracle’s rights to control first marketing of its it hardware in Europe

  • RPC
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 27 2012

The Supreme Court (the UK’s highest court) has unequivocally upheld the rights of a trade mark owner to the first marketing rights of its products in the EEA, notwithstanding complaints from a parallel importer that the exercise of those rights was anti-competitive (see Oracle America Inc. (formerly Sun) v M-Tech Data Ltd1