Spares, Repairs and Intellectual Property Rights

By Christopher Heath

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9041131361
• ISBN13: 9789041131362
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Kluwer Law International
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.8"