Fuji goes after Grey Market Sellers in US

That depends a lot on where the dealers buy the cameras. In the EU, there's a strict difference between importing from a country inside the EU and importing from one outside the EU. The classic case is Levi Strauss v Tesco.

The courts eventually found for Levi Strauss because Tesco bought the jeans from wholesalers in the US and therefor American trademark and copyright laws ruled. BUT Tesco went on selling the jeans at a heavy discount, to the great annoyance of Levi Strauss, when they found legitimate EU wholesalers prepared to sell at the same price as the American wholesalers. Levi Strauss huffed and puffed but could do nothing about it because the EU courts get very sniffy about outsiders trying to tell EU businesses how to trade among themselves.

So if the UK grey importers can find legitimate EU sources of Fuji kit, Fuji can make as much noise as they wish. It won't do them any good at all.
 
Sejanus Aelianus said:
That depends a lot on where the dealers buy the cameras. In the EU, there's a strict difference between importing from a country inside the EU and importing from one outside the EU. The classic case is Levi Strauss v Tesco.

The courts eventually found for Levi Strauss because Tesco bought the jeans from wholesalers in the US and therefor American trademark and copyright laws ruled. BUT Tesco went on selling the jeans at a heavy discount, to the great annoyance of Levi Strauss, when they found legitimate EU wholesalers prepared to sell at the same price as the American wholesalers. Levi Strauss huffed and puffed but could do nothing about it because the EU courts get very sniffy about outsiders trying to tell EU businesses how to trade among themselves.

So if the UK grey importers can find legitimate EU sources of Fuji kit, Fuji can make as much noise as they wish. It won't do them any good at all.
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Interesting. What about those imported directly from Japan and I wonder how the laws will stand once we leave the EU?
 
All indications are that the UK will incorporate all EU laws as UK law, at least until they can be examined and changed individually. Though I can not remember a time since retail price maintenance was abolished, that a manufacturer could control a retail selling price. Or define a supply chain. If you can buy something legally, you can sell it legally.

Buying from a free port, like Kong Kong is unlikely to incur any restrictions, except relating to our own import duties.
 
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Terrywoodenpic said:
All indications are that the UK will incorporate all EU laws as UK law, at least until they can be examined and changed individually. Though I can not remember a time since retail price maintenance was abolished, that a manufacturer could control a retail selling price. Or define a supply chain. If you can buy something legally, you can sell it legally.

Buying from a free port, like Kong Kong is unlikely to incur any restrictions, except relating to our own import duties.
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Price fixing is still very much alive and well in the UK. A friend of mine runs an outdoor online store and quite a few of the manufacturers he deals with dictate his selling price with the bigger retailers allowed to sell discount.

It may be illegal, but if you complain they just stop supply.
 
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