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Exhaustion of intellectual property rights

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237: 51:. For example, if an inventor obtains a patent on a new kind of umbrella, the inventor (or anyone else to whom he sells his patent) can legally prohibit other companies from making and selling this kind of umbrella, but cannot prohibit customers who have bought this umbrella from the patent owner from reselling the umbrella to third parties. Or if a piece of software containing a 62:
The legal concept of international exhaustion is much more controversial, and is recognized in some countries but not in others. The importation, in a country that recognizes the concept of international exhaustion, of a product sold in a foreign country with the authorization of the IP right owner
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in 2020 caused restrictions on trade out of the UK, creating an asymmetric exhaustion status enabling imports to the UK from the EEA where there is no matching opportunity for parallel exports from the UK to the EEA. This was thought in February 2022 to be likely to continue for some time, or even
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While there is a "fairly broad consensus" throughout the world that patent exhaustion "applies at least within the context of the domestic market", "here is less consensus as to what extent the sale of an IP protected product abroad can exhaust the IP rights over this product in the context of
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domestic law." The former is the concept of "national exhaustion", the latter of "regional exhaustion" or "international exhaustion". The rules and legal implications of the exhaustion largely differ depending on the country of importation, i.e. the national jurisdiction.
35:(IP) rights. Once a given product has been sold under the authorization of the IP owner, the reselling, rental, lending and other third party commercial uses of IP-protected goods in domestic and international markets are governed by the principle. 197:
Article 6 TRIPS: "For the purposes of dispute settlement under this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 nothing in this Agreement shall be used to address the issue of the exhaustion of intellectual property
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right, has been sold by the IP right owner or by others with the consent of the owner, the IP right is said to be exhausted. It can no longer be exercised by the owner. This limitation is also referred to as the
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for US copyright law, and in that decision explained the general rationale for the doctrine under
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The United States Supreme Court adopted the doctrine of international exhaustion in
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Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
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is distributed by the patent owner, then the patent is exhausted.
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The surprising interaction of open source and patent exhaustion
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After a product covered by an IP right, such as by a
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Exhaustion of rights
intellectual property
patent
patented algorithm
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
World Trade Organization
Brexit
Copyright Directive (Directive 2001/29/EC)
Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law
First-sale doctrine






"International Exhaustion and Parallel Importation"
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Lindberg, Van
The surprising interaction of open source and patent exhaustion
FOSDEM
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
common law
"Exhaustion of intellectual property rights in the UK post-Brexit - asymmetry to continue indefinitely"
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law
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