E-Book20 chapters # US Right to Repair Compliance Handbook A US right-to-repair handbook for electronics manufacturers: state laws in New York, California, Minnesota, Colorado and Oregon, parts pairing and DMCA. The complete reference for US state right-to-repair compliance for electronics manufacturers — every enacted state law from New York to Kansas, the federal context underneath them, parts pairing and the "fair and reasonable terms" standard, documentation and pricing obligations, the DMCA Section 1201 overlay, and the current enforcement reality, including the FTC-Deere precedent. Built for electronics manufacturers, compliance teams, product design leads, and legal counsel who need a durable desk reference, not just a video course. This book contains the use of artificial intelligence. ## What you'll learn * Map the US right-to-repair landscape and know exactly which state laws apply to each product line * Understand the scope, exclusion, and wholesale-price-threshold framework behind every state's statute * Work through New York, California, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Texas, and Kansas in genuine depth * Design around parts-pairing bans without abandoning legitimate serialization, calibration, or security uses * Build a genuine "fair and reasonable terms" pricing program that survives real scrutiny * Publish documentation and set up parts/tools access that satisfies the parity standard every state uses * Apply security and trade-secret exceptions narrowly and defensibly, and track the separate federal DMCA layer * Build a real, ongoing national compliance program instead of a reactive, state-by-state scramble $24.99 One-time purchase · Read in browser · No subscription * Map the US right-to-repair landscape and know exactly which state laws apply to each product line * Understand the scope, exclusion, and wholesale-price-threshold framework behind every state's statute * Work through New York, California, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Texas, and Kansas in genuine depth Buy for $24.99 Secure checkout via Paddle Not what you expected? 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Built from a regulatory graph already at work 2,191 users this week 658 guides 323 product types 9 markets ## Chapters Read Chapter 1 free → 1 The Big Picture A handful of ordinary failures show what's actually at stake before any of the detail begins. 2 The Regulatory Framework Before working through individual state requirements, it's worth understanding the framework they sit inside — the absence of a federal right-to-repair law f… 3 Scope & Who Must Comply Everything else in this book depends on knowing exactly which products, price points, and states put you in scope. 4 New York — Digital Fair Repair Act New York's Digital Fair Repair Act was the first electronics-specific state right-to-repair law and set the template much of what followed would react to. 5 California — Right to Repair Act (SB 244) California's SB 244 introduced the price-tiered retention structure — three years for parts priced $50 to $99.99, seven years for $100 and above — that Texas… 6 Minnesota — Digital Fair Repair Act Minnesota's Digital Fair Repair Act reaches back further than any other state's law — retroactively to July 1, 2021 — and extends coverage to household appli… 7 Colorado — Right to Repair Consumer Electronic Equipment Colorado's HB24-1121 was the state's third right-to-repair statute, following 2022 wheelchair and 2023 agricultural-equipment laws. 8 Oregon — SB 1596 and the Parts-Pairing Ban Oregon's SB 1596 was the first state law to ban parts pairing outright, following negotiation reportedly involving iFixit and a "decade of repair support" co… 9 The Newer Wave: Washington, Connecticut, Texas & Kansas This chapter covers four states in one pass — Washington's retroactive parts-pairing restrictions and separate mobility-device law, Connecticut's law embedde… 10 Parts Pairing: The Emerging Battleground Parts pairing is the newest and most consequential trend in this field, reshaping hardware design decisions well beyond the three states that have banned it … 11 "Fair and Reasonable Terms" "Fair and reasonable terms" is the near-universal comparative pricing standard running through almost every state statute in this book. 12 Documentation & Technical Manuals This chapter covers what a genuine repair documentation set actually contains — service manuals, schematics, parts lists, diagnostic references — and the pra… 13 Parts & Tools: Pricing and Availability This chapter covers parts and tools availability in practice — pricing methodology documentation, cross-state benchmarking, tool obsolescence, and the genuin… 14 Security, Trade Secrets & Anti-Circumvention Every state statute in this book preserves a security and trade-secret carve-out, and this chapter covers how to use it defensibly in both directions — prote… 15 DMCA Section 1201: The Federal Copyright Overlay DMCA Section 1201 is a separate federal copyright-law restriction on circumventing technological protection measures, running independently of every state st… 16 Enforcement, Penalties & the FTC-Deere Precedent This chapter covers how enforcement actually works in this field — predominantly complaint-driven state AG action, California's dedicated Bureau of Household… 17 Full Walkthrough: A National Electronics Manufacturer Abstract requirements are easy to nod along to and hard to apply. 18 Your Compliance Action Plan This closing chapter turns everything in this book into a concrete ninety-day plan, plus the recurring habits — quarterly monitoring chief among them — that … 19 Knowledge Checks Each module's knowledge check is collected here for quick self-testing. 20 Appendix A: Downloadable Tools Buy for $24.99 ## Want the full video course? 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