In today’s Rzeczpospolita, Dr. Michal Markiewicz writes about the institution of exhaustion of rights. When we acquire a good protected by intellectual property rights, can we sell it further? It would seem that since it is our property then, of course, yes. However, the answer, as usual in law, is “it depends.” As a rule, intellectual property rights also include control over the further resale of acquired items. The exception in this regard, which is extremely important, is precisely the exhaustion of the right to control the resale – however, this does not always occur, and the mechanism itself is an important tool from the perspective of shaping price policy and the competitiveness of individual markets. In the article I present the basic assumptions of the construction of the exhaustion of the right and the consequences it brings. Publicly available excerpt from the article: https://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/1503521-Wlasnosc-rzeczy-to-jednak-nie-wszystko.html