Latin America and Caribbean

The use of hyperlinks may be considered as a trade-related copyright infringement under certain circumstances.

To understand the application and scope in our legal system of the exhaustion of rights doctrine it is necessary to know what it means. So, we must understand that the exhaustion of rights is a limitation on IP rights, which results in the loss of these exclusive rights granted to the titleholder over some product covered by an IP right, when such product has been lawfully introduced to the market by him or with his consent.