Court of Justice 29 January 1998, C-355/96 (Silhouette International Schmied GmbH & Co. KG v Hartlauer Handelsgesellschaft mbH.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 The Court's case-law on Articles 30 and 36 of the EC Treaty established for trade marks, as well as for other forms of intellectual property, a principle of Community-wide exhaustion: (1) thus the sale in the Community of the trade-marked goods, by or with the consent of the trade-mark owner, exhausts the trade-mark rights