6 Please describe any additional laws or doctrines (other than the first sale/exhaustion doctrine) that could limit Herbalifes ability to restrict unauthorized sale of its products by third parties.
1. The first sale/exhaustion doctrine is only applicable to patents under
Philippine Intellectual Property Law. The Intellectual Property Code (IPC) does not confer the exclusive right to restrain, prohibit and prevent any authorized person or entity from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing t[he] product on the owner of a trademark, unlike the owner of a patent. [Section 71.1] The Supreme Court has not yet applied this doctrine in a trademark case. 2. The rights conferred on an owner to prevent the use of its trademark by third parties without its consent only extend to counterfeit objects or products. Section 147 of the IPC provides: SECTION 147. Rights Conferred. 147.1. The owner of a registered mark shall have the exclusive right to prevent all third parties not having the owner's consent from using in the course of trade identical or similar signs or containers for goods or services which are identical or similar to those in respect of which the trademark is registered where such use would result in a likelihood of confusion. In case of the use of an identical sign for identical goods or services, a likelihood of confusion shall be presumed. 147.2. The exclusive right of the owner of a well-known mark define in Subsection 123.1(e) which is registered in the Philippines, shall extend to goods and services which are not similar to those in respect of which the mark is registered: Provided, That use of that mark in relation to those goods or services would indicate a connection between those goods or services and the owner of the registered mark: Provided further, That the interests of the owner of the registered mark are likely to be damaged by such use. (n) 3. The unauthorized seller is not privy to any agreement between the trademark owner and its licensed distributors/resellers. The unauthorized seller, being a third party to any agreement restricting and/or limiting the sale of the trademark owners products (i.e. license agreements, exclusive distributorship agreements), can invoke that it had no knowledge of the limitations therein and that it is not bound by any of the contractual provisions in said agreements. 4. The unauthorized reselling of trademarked products does not fall under trademark infringement, as defined in the IPC. The IPC defines trademark infringement as: SECTION 155. Remedies; Infringement. Any person who shall, without the consent of the owner of the registered mark: 155.1. Use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark or the same container or a dominant feature thereof in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, advertising of any goods or services including other preparatory steps necessary to carry out the sale of any goods or services on or in connection with which such use is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive; or 155.2. Reproduce, counterfeit, copy or colorably imitate a registered mark or a dominant feature thereof and apply such reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation to labels, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, receptacles or advertisements intended to be used in commerce upon or in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of goods or services on or in connection with which such use is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive, shall be liable in a civil action for infringement by the registrant for the remedies hereinafter set forth: Provided, That the infringement takes place at the moment any of the acts stated in Subsection 155.1 or this subsection are committed regardless of whether there is actual sale of goods or services using the infringing material. (underscoring supplied) o Thus, from the definition above, it can be seen that an element of infringement is that the trademark or use thereof is a counterfeit or imitation, which is not the case here. 5. Unfair competition under the IPC cannot also apply to the resale of genuine products. Unfair competition only applies in cases of copying and making false statements by one who passes off its own goods for those of another that has an established goodwill, which causes likelihood of confusion [Section 168]. Moreover, in unfair competition, fraudulent intent is an essential element.
Not bound by us cases application of US case law [INFRINGEMENT]
Prove fraud, deceit, inducement, and knowledge 1314 Good faith- human relations these are only civil cases