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19. Austria

Author : Max W. Mosing

Published in: Compatibility of Transactional Resolutions of Antitrust Proceedings with Due Process and Fundamental Rights & Online Exhaustion of IP Rights

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Depending on the affected IP right, e.g. copyright, rights in trademarks, designs, patents, or plant variety, the corresponding Austrian Act defines the “principle of exhaustion” in a slightly different way. The Austrian courts have not developed a “general principle of exhaustion all over the field of IP rights” but have applied the “principle of exhaustion” according to the exact wording of the corresponding Act.

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E.g., Austrian Copyright Act, Austrian Trademark Act, Austrian Design Act, Austrian Patent Act, Austrian Plant Variety Act—see details below.

Austrian Copyright Act, Bundesgesetz über das Urheberrecht an Werken der Literatur und der Kunst und über verwandte Schutzrechte (Urheberrechtsgesetz), Federal Law Gazette 1936/111 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/99.

Austrian Supreme Court, 11 May 2012, 4 Ob 85/12x.

Austrian Supreme Court, 20 June 2006, 4 Ob 47/06z.

Austrian Supreme Court, 11 May 2012, 4 Ob 85/12x.

Austrian Supreme Court, 18 February 2003, 4 Ob 235/02s.

Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, pp. 47–390.

Austrian Trademark Act, Markenschutzgesetz 1970, Federal Law Gazette 1970/260 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/130.

Austrian Supreme Court, 28 September 1999, 4 Ob 206/99y.

Austrian Supreme Court, 27 April 1999, 4 Ob 63/99i.

Austrian Supreme Court, 15 February 2000, 4 Ob 33/00g.

Austrian Supreme Court, 28 September 1998, 4 Ob 223/98t.

Austrian Supreme Court, 18 November 2003, 4 Ob 214/03d.

Austrian Supreme Court, 15 October 1996, 4 Ob 2252/96x.

Directive 2008/95/EC of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks, OJ L 299, 8.11.2008, pp. 25–33.

Austrian Supreme Court, 16 December 2003, 4 Ob 213/03g.

Austrian Supreme Court, 18 November 2003, 4 Ob 210/03s.

Pro exhaustion: Austrian Supreme Court, 28 September 1999, 4 Ob 206/99y; contra exhaustion: Austrian Supreme Court, 18 November 2003, 4 Ob 210/03s.

Austrian Supreme Court, 28 September 1999, 4 Ob 206/99y.

Austrian Supreme Court, 27 August 2013, 4 Ob 122/13i.

Austrian Supreme Court, 18 November 2003, 4 Ob 210/03s.

Austrian Supreme Court, 29 January 2002, 4 Ob 22/02t.

Austrian Supreme Court, 8 November 1994, 4 Ob 133/94.

Austrian Supreme Court, 28 September 2004, 4 Ob 167/04v.

Austrian Supreme Court, 30 January 2001, 4 Ob 270/00k.

See http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/.

Council Regulation (EC) 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark, OJ L 78, 24.3.2009, pp. 1–41.

Austrian Design Protection Act, Bundesgesetz vom 7. Juni 1990 über den Schutz von Mustern (Musterschutzgesetz 1990—MuSchG), Federal Law Gazette 1990/497 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2013/126.

Council Regulation (EC) 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs, OJ L 3, 5.1.2012, pp. 1–24.

Austrian Patent Act, Patentgesetz 1970, Federal Law Gazette 1970/259 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2013/126.

Act Regarding the Protection of Plant Variety Rights, Bundesgesetz über den Schutz von Pflanzensorten (Sortenschutzgesetz 2001), Federal Law Gazette I 2001/109 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/93.

A detailed report on the references for a preliminary ruling from Austrian courts between 2009 and 2012 can be found under https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Ebmj/ERL_07_000_20120109_001_15116EU_1_EU_12/07_20120109_15116EU1EU12_01.pdf (German only).

Austrian Supreme Court, 13 February 2007, 4Ob246/06i.

Austrian Supreme Court, 24 February 1998, 4 Ob 36/98t.

Austrian Supreme Court, 19 December 2005, 4 Ob 194/05s.

See the figures regarding Internet access below.

http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/informationsgesellschaft/ikt-einsatz_in_haushalten/.

http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/informationsgesellschaft/ikt-einsatz_in_unternehmen/index.html.

http://www.agnesstreissler.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Internet-Economy-AT.pdf.

http://www.bundeskanzleramt.at/site/7900/default.aspx.

Austrian E-Commerce Act, Bundesgesetz, mit dem bestimmte rechtliche Aspekte des elektronischen Geschäfts- und Rechtsverkehrs geregelt werden (E-Commerce-Gesetz—ECG), Federal Law Gazette I 2001/152, as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/34.

Directive 2000/31/EC of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce), OJ L 178, 17/07/2000, pp. 1–16.

Austrian Consumer Protection Acts, Bundesgesetz vom 8. März 1979, mit dem Bestimmungen zum Schutz der Verbraucher getroffen werden (Konsumentenschutzgesetz—KSchG), Federal Law Gazette 1979/140 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/105 and Federal Act on Long Distance Selling, Bundesgesetz über Fernabsatz- und außerhalb von Geschäftsräumen geschlossene Verträge (Fern- und Auswärtsgeschäfte-Gesetz—FAGG), Federal Law Gazette I 2014/33.

Austrian Trade Act, Gewerbeordnung 1994—GewO 1994, Federal Law Gazette 1994/194 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2015/155.

Winklbauer/Geyer, Der urheberrechtliche Erschöpfungsgrundsatz im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung—Auswirkungen der Used-Soft-Entscheidung des EuGH, ZIR 2014, 93; Enchelmaier, Erschöpfung des Rechts zum (Weiter-)Verkauf “gebrauchter” Software, GPR 2013, 224; Bauer/Homar, Die Bedeutung von Echtheitszertifikaten im Gebrauchtsoftwarehandel, ZTR 2013, 98; Schmitt in Jahnel/Staudegger/Thiele, Jahrbuch Geistiges Eigentum 2013, 247: Der Fall “UsedSoft” und seine vertrags- und urheberrechtlichen Implikationen; Wendehorst, Der Anwendungsbereich des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrechts, AnwBl 2013, 345; Schmitt, Der Online-Vertrieb von Software nach dem EuGH-Urteil “UsedSoft,” MR 2012, 256; Kulka, EuGH zum Handel mit “gebrauchter Software”: Geburtsstunde eines blühenden Geschäftszweigs? ÖBl 2012/58; Streit/Jung, E-Books im österreichischen Recht, MR-Int 2012, 6.

CJEU case C-128/11, UsedSoft GmbH v. Oracle International Corporation (not yet published).

Austrian Supreme Court, 4 October 1994, 4 Ob 1091/94.

Austrian Supreme Court, 12 June 2001, 4 Ob 127/01g.

Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, OJ L 77, 27.3.1996, pp. 20–28.

Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, OJ L 167, 22.6.2001, pp. 10–19.

WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996, http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=295166.

Austrian Supreme Court, 20 March 2007, 4 Ob 47/07a.

Compare Schmitt in Jahnel/Staudegger/Thiele, Jahrbuch Geistiges Eigentum 2013, 247: Der Fall “UsedSoft” und seine vertrags- und urheberrechtlichen Implikationen.

See, however, that Adobe changed the business model for “Creative Suite®”to “Creative Cloud®.”

Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II), OJ L 199, 31.7.2007, pp. 40–49.

European Convention on Human Rights, http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf.

Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, OJ L 195/16, 2.6.2004, 16–25.

Recast: Council Regulation (EC) No 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, OJ L 351, 20.12.2012, pp. 1–32.

Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, OJ L 12, 16.1.2001, pp. 1–23.

Lugano Convention of September 16, 1988, on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, Federal Law Gazette 1996/448.

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, COM/2011/0380 final.

Keynote speech by Neelie Kroes in the 2012 Intellectual Property and Innovation Summit, http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/shotlist.cfm?ref=87837.

Title: Austria
Author: Max W. Mosing
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Compatibility of Transactional Resolutions of Antitrust Proceedings with Due Process and Fundamental Rights & Online Exhaustion of IP Rights
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-27157-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-27158-3

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27158-3_19