contract-law intellectual-property
Reselling Value Added Products?
<p>Imagining this scenario:</p>

<p>I buy a miniature Intel computing product, that comes with a pre-installed Windows operating system for personal usage. </p>

<p>Can I repurpose it by installing a customized Linux OS and sell it for profit as part of a bigger industrial/retail solution?</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Can I repurpose it by installing a customized Linux OS and sell it for
  profit as part of a bigger industrial/retail solution?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Yes. The "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">first sale doctrine</a>" prohibits a seller of a good from prohibiting the kind of transaction that you contemplate (so long as the pre-installed Windows operating system, which was sold for personal use only, is not itself used for industrial/retail purposes rather than for personal use).</p>

<p>Indeed, if you have a business that uses this business model, you can generally obtain a sales tax exemption on the purchase since the product is being purchased for resale rather than as a final retail sale.</p>
