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The Right to Repair: Navigating legal complexities and competitive challenges

Courtney Lytle Sarnow
Courtney Lytle Sarnow | Culhane Meadows

Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner in the Atlanta office of Culhane Meadows and has over twenty-five years of experience in broad-based transactional practice with a specific focus on startup companies, intellectual property and technology.

On-Demand: August 21, 2023

The Right to Repair: Navigating legal complexities and competitive challenges

$195.00 1.5 hour CLE

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Program Summary

The “Right to Repair” has come to encompass a variety of concerns ranging from farmers wishing to change the oil on their tractors to innovative companies trying to maintain proprietary intellectual property against concerted foreign piracy. In May of 2021, the FTC announced its intention to prioritize enforcement of related competition laws to restrict manufacturers’ ability to limit consumers’ ability to repair the manufacturer’s products. Many states are currently considering legislation to increase consumers’ ability to repair the products they buy. At issue are competing interests in protecting proprietary IP, fostering competition, boosting consumer rights, and fighting environmentally harmful disposable consumption culture. The program will discuss the scope of the issues, the proposed legislative and administrative approaches and other potential policies strategies for parties to use to navigate this developing area.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • FTC actions to counter “anticompetitive” strategies by Manufacturers
  • Legislative attempts to increase consumer rights
  • Conflict between proprietary IP rights and consumer demands
  • Policy considerations and strategies

Date / Time: August 21, 2023

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Courtney Sarnow_Culhane Meadows Haughian & Walsh PLLC._FedBarCourtney Lytle Sarnow | Culhane Meadows

Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner in the Atlanta office of Culhane Meadows and has over twenty-five years of experience in broad-based transactional practice with a specific focus on startup companies, intellectual property and technology. She also teaches at Emory University School of Law as an Adjunct professor in Intellectual Property Law and Negotiation Law and is the author of a skills-focused textbook on IP Licensing and an upcoming textbook on Negotiations Techniques.

Agenda

I. Background: what is the Right to Repair? | 2:00pm – 2:15pm

II. Conflict between IP Rights and Right to Repair | 2:15pm – 2:30pm

III. Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions and impact of Right to Repair on Competition laws | 2:30pm – 2:45pm

IV. Proposed State Legislation | 2:45pm – 3:00pm

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

V. Consumer Actions against manufacturers | 3:10pm – 3:20pm

VI. Manufacturer concerns and strategies | 3:20pm – 3:30pm

VII. Best practices for navigating the right to repair | 3:30pm – 3:40pm

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