\u003cp\u003e\nAlthough supplying spare and replacement parts and providing repair services \nform the basis of many legitimate businesses, many manufacturing enterprises \nseek to augment the competitive advantage realized at the market stage of \nselling their main products by attempting to monopolize the market for spares, \nrepairs and refills. Increasingly, companies are using intellectual property \nlaws to devise up-front business strategies to gain exclusive rights in the \ncomponents of their products. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThis is the first in-depth analysis of the law in this relatively new and \nrapidly developing area of practice. It sheds clear light on the conflicting \ninterests of manufacturers, consumers, spare parts makers and the general \npublic; explores the extent to which this kind of business strategy can be \nmore or less successful with respect to the different rights involved, and in \ndifferent jurisdictions; and highlights the competition issues that inevitably \narise. The essays included are revised and updated versions of papers \npresented at the seventh (2006) of the innovative IP conference organized \nannually by the Macau Institute of European Studies (IEEM) on intellectual \nproperty law and the economic challenges for Asia. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAmong the topics and issues covered are the following: \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n ;\n\n\u003cli\u003e\nnotions of \u0026#8216;repair\u0026#8217; and \u0026#8216;recycle\u0026#8217; and their legal effects;\n\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nthe limits of IP rights in relation to repair and recycle;\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nlegal limits of end user licence agreements (EULAs) and technological \nprotection measures (TPMs);\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\npatent exhaustion on repair and recycling;\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nalteration of product \u0026#8216;identity\u0026#8217;;\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nthe concept of \u0026#8216;indirect\u0026#8217; or \u0026#8216;contributory\u0026#8217; infringement;\n\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\ndesign law strategies; and\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n secondary market definitions.\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe authors give detailed attention to cases in various jurisdictions that \nhave guided and continue to guide business strategies in the field. \nJurisdictions treated include the EU, the US, the UK, Germany, the \nNetherlands, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn its clarification of the limits and possibilities of business strategies in \nthis area of competition that is just beginning to attract attention, this \nbook will be of great value not only to intellectual property law \npractitioners but to business people in nearly any field of production, \nespecially where cross-border marketing is involved.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e
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