Authors:Christopher Heath, Christopher Heath, Anselm Kamperm
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: kluwer, law, international, rights, property, repairs, intellectual, spares
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2009-09-04
List price: $172.00
ISBN-10: 9041131361
ISBN-13: 9789041131362

Although supplying spare and replacement parts and providing repair services form the basis of many legitimate businesses, many manufacturing enterprises seek to augment the competitive advantage realized at the market stage of selling their main products by attempting to monopolize the market for spares, repairs and refills. Increasingly, companies are using intellectual property laws to devise up-front business strategies to gain exclusive rights in the components of their products. This is the first in-depth analysis of the law in this relatively new and rapidly developing area of practice.