April 23 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
In its recent decision, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court charted new waters by establishing the groundwork for what may become the future of international distribution networks—international exhaustion.
Briefly, Kirtsaeng involves a relatively simple plan by a medical student to finance his education by importing and selling in the U.S. the foreign-published editions of various U.S. copyrighted textbooks.
