Exhaustion and First Sale in IP
November 5, 2010
8:15 am – 5:15 pm
The Mission Room, Benson Center
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Academic, economics and legal experts will explore the First Sale and Exhaustion doctrines in patents, copyrights and trademarks, as well as related issues such as antitrust and contract restrictions.
Speakers
Speaker Bios
Agenda
Conference Resources
Speaker Presentations
CLE: This event will qualify for 5.5 hours of CLE. Santa Clara Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
Several speakers will be writing articles for the Santa Clara Law Review’s Symposium Issue. For more information, click here.
Conference Resources
Copyright
- Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908)
- Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L’anza Research Int’l, Inc., 523 U.S. 135 (1998)
- Omega v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 541 F. 3d 982 (9th Cir. 2008)
- Omega v. Costco Wholesale Corp., Oral Arguments (Supreme Court 2010)
- UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Augusto, No. CV 07-03106, slip op. (C.D. Cal. June 10, 2008)
- Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., 555 F.Supp.2d 1164 (W.D.Wash. 2008), vacated, No. 2:07-CV-01189-RAJ, 2010 WL 3516435 (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2010)
- MDY Indus. v. Blizzard Entm’t Inc., No. CV-06-2555-PHX-DGC, 2009 WL 2132689 (D. Ariz. July 16, 2009)
Trademark
- Prestonettes, Inc. v. Coty, 264 U.S. 359 (1924)
- Sebastian Int’l, Inc. v. Longs Drug Stores Corp., 53 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir. 1995)
- Au-Tomotive Gold v. VW, Inc. (9th Cir. 2010)
- Mary Kay, Inc. v. Weber, 661 F.Supp.2d 632 (N.D. Tex. 2009)
- Beltronics USA Inc. v. Midwest Inventory Distribution LLC, 562 F.3d 1067 (10th Cir. 2009)
- Irene Calboli, Trademark Exhaustion in the European Union: Community-Wide or International? The Saga Continues, 6 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 47 (2002)
Patent
- Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008)
- Cynthia M. Ho, Access to Medicine in a Global Economy, International Agreements on Patents and Related Rights, Chapter 2, (OUP forthcoming 2011)
- Jazz Photo Corp. v. ITC, 264 F.3d 1094 (Fed. Cir. 2001)
- Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc., 976 F.2d 700 (Fed. Cir. 1992)
- Anne Layne-Farrar et al., An Economic Take on Patent Licensing: Understanding the Implications of the ‘First Sale Patent Exhaustion’ Doctrine (February 09, 2010)
- United States International Trade Commission, Investigation No. 337-TA-630, Initial Determination on Violation of Section 337 and Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bond (Aug. 28, 2009)
- United States International Trade Commission, Investigation No. 337-TA-661, Commission Opinion (Note exhaustion issue on pages 16 – 18)
Antitrust
Right of Publicity
Transborder Issues
- Parallel Importation: Economic and social welfare dimensions, International Institute for Sustainable Development, June 2007, prepared for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- Second Report (Final) to the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association on the Subject of the Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights and Parallel Importation (2000)
- The Silhouette of a Trojan Horse: Reflections on Advocate General Jacobs’ Opinion in Silhouette v. Hartlauer (with D.W. Feer Veerkade), first published in 66 BIJBLAD BIJ DE INDUSTRIËLE EIGENDOM 111 (1998) (Gazette of the Dutch Patent Office), also published in 1998 JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LAW 413 (Sweet & Maxwell)
- First Report (Final) to the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association on the Subject of Parallel Importation, 1 JIEL 607 (1998) (Oxford)
Speaker Presentations
Justifications for the First Sale/Exhaustion Doctrines
- An Economic Argument for Flexibility in IPR Licensing (Anne Layne-Farrar)
- First Sale Doctrine and Secondary Markets (Rahul Telang)
- A Comparative Property Perspective on Post-Sale Restrictions (Molly Shaffer Van Houweling)
Channel Management Issues
- Channel Management: A Business Perspective (Dale D. Achabal)
- What Modern Antitrust Law Can and Cannot Teach about the First Sale Doctrine (Ariel Katz)
- Antitrust and the First-Sale Doctrine (Catherine Sandoval)
Transborder and Comparative Issues
- Exhaustion of Trademarks and Parallel Imports in China (Daniel C.K. Chow)
- Exhausting Extraterritoriality (John A. Rothchild)
- Market Integration and “First Sale” Rule in North American and European Trademark Law (Irene Calboli)
- International Exhaustion: Access to Medicine under TRIPS (Cynthia Ho)
Copyright Issues
- First Sale and Contract (Raymond T. Nimmer)
- Exceptions to the First-Sale Doctrine in Copyright Law (Tyler T. Ochoa)