legal requirement for parts support after a product is discontinued?
Question by Herbert F: legal requirement for parts support after a product is discontinued?
I would like to find out the legal requirement, if any, for companies to support a product with parts after they no longer manufacture the product.
I seem to recall hearing 5 years once, but I’m not having any luck tracking down the info at the moment.
Best answer:
Answer by Lyricoll
Go to the website of the product you have and email their help dept. Hopefully that’s the easy way!
What do you think? Answer below!
In the United States, a manufacturer is not legally required to support products after the warranty has expired. Many years ago, there was a school of thought that believed the practice was a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and characterized it as “Predatory Product Innovation.” But that way of thinking was shot down by the courts by 1990.