41That situation must be clearly distinguished from the case where the imported products come from a licensee or a subsidiary to which ownership of the trademark right has been assigned in the exporting State: a contract of assignment by itself, that is in the absence of any economic link, does not give the assignor any means of controlling the quality of products which are marketed by the assignee and to which the latter has affixed the trade mark.
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