Judgment_paragraph 3 · Nashua Corporation and others v Commission and Council of the European Communities (C-133/87, C-150/87)

3Nashua Corporation is an original equipment manufacturer (hereinafter: ‘OEM’), that is to say, a company supplying under its own brand name products manufactured by other undertakings. It purchases plain paper photocopiers in Japan from the Japanese manufacturer Ricoh Company Limited (hereinafter: ‘Ricoh’) and sells them under the Nashua brand name in the Community, through its subsidiary companies, and in many nonmember countries.