DACS co-signs letter requesting meeting on Government's IP exhaustion plans
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As a member of the Alliance for Intellectual Property, DACS has co-signed an open letter requesting a cross sector meeting on the Government's IP exhaustion decision.
The UK government is currently considering changing the UK's Intellectual Property exhaustion rules.
What is IP exhaustion?
The right to take legal action against infringement is limited by a system known as 'exhaustion' of IP rights. Once a good has been placed on the market in a specific territory by, or with the consent of, the rights holder, the IP rights protecting this good are considered to be “exhausted”. This means that the right to take legal action against infringement has been lost.
Last year, the government consulted through the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about a move to an ‘international exhaustion regime’ to replace the existing EU regional exhaustion regime, which was retained after the UK left the EU.
DACS has co-signed an open letter requesting a cross sector meeting on the Government's plans for IP exhaustion. You can read the letter in full here.
