tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post5308331745772540666..comments2024-03-19T08:36:55.274+00:00Comments on The IPKat: First sale doctrine in the US: a closer look at CostcoVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-8027843633181423102015-01-27T16:56:46.200+00:002015-01-27T16:56:46.200+00:00Anonymous @10:16
Thank you for the link. It seems...Anonymous @10:16<br /><br />Thank you for the link. It seems to be more a trademark than a copyright issue. Also, as stated by the owner of a US British food shop in the article, importing food in US is not as easy as importing books or watches, as you have to deal with the FDA. Sad news, as I love my Cadbury fingers. <br /><br />Anonymous @04:04<br /><br />The first sale doctrine is a copyright law doctrine, so I do not believe it would have any influence on patent law. <br /><br />Anonymous @16:10:00 <br /><br />Perish the though I would disparage Costco! I am a bargain shopper, and a giant can of soup would allow me to finally dare baking that "tomato soup cake" which recipe I found in a thrift store in an Campbell "Cooking with Soup" book from the Sixties!Marie-Andree Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-52739031444272006492015-01-26T10:16:10.139+00:002015-01-26T10:16:10.139+00:00Over the weekend, I was reading this article about...Over the weekend, I was reading this article about US chocolate companies banning imports of (tastier) UK chocolate - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/nyregion/after-a-deal-british-chocolates-wont-cross-the-pond.html - and I wondered if the first sale doctrine would apply in that case too. Does anyone know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-23349672610831360462015-01-26T04:04:22.418+00:002015-01-26T04:04:22.418+00:00any foreseeable influence on patents? allowing the...any foreseeable influence on patents? allowing the same exhaustion of rights for patents would have considerably different consequences, seeing there is no equivalent of the Berne convention for patents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-47733242965535097532015-01-25T16:10:31.629+00:002015-01-25T16:10:31.629+00:00I would add that such is a big victory for consume...I would add that such is a big victory for consumers as well.<br /><br />The secondary market is a critical element in constraining the power of large corporations with world-wide might to play a "divide and conquer" game of playing off one country against another and manipulating cost factors solely for the large corporations' benefit.<br /><br />It would be worthwhile to revisit the Kirtsaeng decision (and not try so subtly to disparage this victory - gallons and giant cans, notwithstanding). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com