Provides an in-depth assessment of the exhaustion doctrine and explores how its various implementations have shaped international trade issues.

Shubha Ghosh is Crandall Melvin Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and Director of the Technology Commercialization Law Center. He is the author of Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting (Cambridge, 2012) and co-author of Transactional Intellectual Property: From Startups to Public Companies (2015) and Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity (2016).

Foreword Jerome Reichman; 1. The persistent policy pull of exhaustion; 2. Incentives and exhaustion policy; 3. Exhaustion and international trade; 4. Trademark exhaustion across jurisdictions; 5. Patent exhaustion across jurisdictions; 6. Copyright exhaustion across jurisdictions; 7. Overlapping rights and exhaustion; 8. Exhaustion in the digital age; 9. Exhaustion policy: challenges and choices.