%0 Journal Article %T Intellectual Property Rights and International Free Trade ¡ªNew Jurisprudence of International Exhaustion Doctrine under Traditional Legal System %A Chung-Lun Shen %J Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology %D 2012 %I International Association of IT Lawyers %X The interaction between the exhaustion of intellectual property rights and the parallel importation has been being one of the most controversial issues under international intellectual property laws. Consequently, the main purposes of this article is to assure that intellectual property law¡ªin particular, the exhaustion doctrine¡ªis best fit to deal with the issue of the conflict between intellectual property rights and international free trade. Meanwhile, this article is also to determine that the international exhaustion doctrine is the optimal legal model for the harmonization goal through examining the theoretical arguments and observing legal experience in the global community. %K intellectual property law %K international free trade %K trade %K exhaustion doctrine %K harmonisation %U http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/jiclt/article/view/155/153