Post-sale Restraints and Competitive Harm

Name: Post-sale Restraints and Competitive Harm
Cite: Hovenkamp, Post-sale Restraints (2010).
Year: 2010
Bluebook cite: Herbert J. Hovenkamp, Post-sale Restraints and Competitive Harms, Feb. 3, 2010 available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540527.
Author: Herbert J. Hovenkamp
URL: ((http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540527))
Item Type: article
Summary: This paper critiques this per se approach to first sale doctrine, concluding that it lacks a defensible policy justification and that it is inconsistent with a decades long trend toward increasing sophistication in the analysis of vertical restraints involving intellectual property rights.

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