对平行进口可否行使禁止请求权——日本最高法院1997年7月1日第三小法庭判决

对专利产品平行进口如何进行法律调控是国际贸易和法学领域亟待解决的问题。我国已加入世界贸易组织,在国际贸易中,不可避免地会出现越来越多的专利产品平行进口。但是,在我国现行法律中并没有直接规范专利产品平行进口的条文,司法实践中也没有案例可供参考。车轮案是日本最高法院对专利产品平行进口首次表态的判例,它以专利权人在第一次销售专利产品时未附加限制销售地区为由,允许平行进口,由此否认了专利权人的禁止请求权。该判决一经作出,即在国际社会上引起广泛关注。现将三村量一法官就该案撰写的文章翻译成中文,以为我国学者研究和法官处理专利产品平行进口问题,提供第一手参考资料。

Whether the Rights of Prohibition May be Exercised on Parallel Import--The Judgement of the Third Tribunal of Supreme Court of Japan on July, 1st. 1997

How to regulate and control legally parallel import of patented products is a question that needs to be solved urgently in the field of international trade and law. With China's entering into WTO, it is unavoidable that parallel import of patented products will take on more and more in international trade. But there are no stipulations to be referred to in our country in current law to regulate directly parallel import of patented products and cases in judicial practices. The wheel case is the first one that showed the attitude of Supreme court of Japan about parallel import of patented products, which denied the rights of Prohibition, allowing parallel import on the ground of that the patent owner didn't attach the limitation to sales area in the first selling patented products. As soon as the judgement was given, it caused the extensive concern in international community. Now, I translate the article concerning with this case into Chinese, written by Judge Mimura Ryouyiti, in order to provide the first-hand reference for scholars' researches and judges' judgements on parallel import of patented products.