Maintenance, Replacement and Recycling - Patentees' Rights in the Aftermarkets

1;Preface;4
2;Table of Contents;6
3;Chapter 1. Introduction;10
3.1;1.1 Interested Parties in the Aftermarket and Patent Exhaustion Doctrine;10
3.2;1.2 Status Quo in Germany, the U.S., and Japan;11
3.3;1.3 Overview of this Research;13
4;Chapter 2. Patentees' Rights and Purchasers' Rights: the Exhaustion Doctrine;15
5;Chapter 3. Cases of Maintenance, Replacement and Recycling: Scope of Allowed Activities in the Aftermarket;66
5.1;3.1 Introduction;66
5.2;3.2 Germany;67
5.2.1;3.2.1 Maintenance;67
5.2.2;3.2.2 Replacement of Parts;68
5.2.3;3.2.3 Recycling;77
5.2.4;3.2.4 Characteristics of Rulings;79
5.3;3.3 The U.S.;81
5.3.1;3.3.1 Maintenance;81
5.3.2;3.3.2 Replacement of Parts;82
5.3.3;3.3.3 Recycling;92
5.3.4;3.3.4 Characteristics of Rulings;97
5.4;3.4 Japan;99
5.4.1;3.4.1 Maintenance;99
5.4.2;3.4.2 Replacement of Parts in Japan;100
5.4.3;3.4.3 Recycling;101
5.5;3.5 Summary and Thoughts;113
5.5.1;3.5.1 Comparative Summary;113
5.5.2;3.5.2 Doubts About Known "repair / reconstruction" and "identity" Criteria;114
5.5.3;3.5.3 A Possible Guideline: "transfer of full value" Based on the Patent Law's Aim;116
6;Chapter 4. Patent Enforcement and Contract / Competition Law;118
6.1;4.1 Introduction;118
6.2;4.2 What is a Patent Right?;118
6.3;4.3 Could the Domestic Exhaustion Doctrine Be Contracted Out?;119
6.3.1;4.3.1 The U.S. Cases on "single use only" Agreements;120
6.3.2;4.3.2 Germany;130
6.3.3;4.3.3 Japan;131
6.3.4;4.3.4 Summary - Who Should Decide the Scope of "Reward"?;132
6.4;4.4 IPR Enforcement in the Aftermarket;134
6.4.1;4.4.1 "Repair Clause" in EU Design Law;135
6.4.2;4.4.2 The U.S.;139
6.4.3;4.4.3 Japan;141
6.4.4;4.4.4 Summary;142
7;Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Scope of the " Full Value" that the Patent Regime Plans to Grant;144
7.1;5.1 Summary of Findings;144
7.2;5.2 Thoughts About the Road Ahead;147
8;Zusammenfassung;150
9;Appendix;157
9.1;A. Tables of Laws;157
9.2;B. Table of Cases;157
9.3;C. Bibliography;163

Mineko Mohri is a Japanese attorney-at-law also admitted in the New York State. She has been working extensively in the field of intellectual property practice, education, and research since 2001. She learned her LL.B. from Keio University (Tokyo), LL.M. from Stanford Law School (California), and Dr. jur. from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich).