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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by beervirus on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:46AM (#27119530)
Not necessarily true. If there are patent and/or trademark licenses involved, the sole distributor may the the only one legally allowed to sell in the territory.
Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by URSpider94 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:41AM (#27127009)
Not true. There’s a principle called “first sale doctrine” that basically says that IP rights are exhausted in the first sale of an item. So, as long as they are buying legally made copies of the product, then the company has no legal recourse. You can’t stop someone from buying something in country A and then importing it into country B and reselling it.
Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by sfifs on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:59AM (#27139219)
In the US most famously decided in the Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. decision. Publishers often charge significantly different prices across different countries for their owm books and this basically prevented them from blocking parallel imports.