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Article: Imports Of Foreign-Made, Genuine Copies Not Protected By First Sale Doctrine.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- November 13, 2008
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently addressed whether the Supreme Court's 1998 landmark Quality King decision requires it to overrule its own precedent allowing a defendant in a copyright infringement action to claim the "first sale doctrine" of 17 U.S.C. s. 109(a) as a defense only if the disputed copies of a copyrighted work were either made or previously sold in the United States with the authority of the copyright owner. Omega S. A. v. Costco Wholesale Corp., Case No. 07-55368 (9th Cir., Sept. 3, 2008) (Smith, J.).
Omega makes its watches in Switzerland using a U.S. copyrighted design and sells its watches globally through a network of ...
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... ... up back in the United States, often on drugstore ... order that prevents Quality King, a distributor ... stored, back to the United States, via Rotterdam ... Netherlands. Once in the United States, the lawsuit says, Quality King dispensed them ...
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