I think your example with the watches is actually entirely non-relevant. I personally don't advocate for laws forcing companies to sell isolated parts to third-

I think your example with the watches is actually entirely non-relevant. I personally don't advocate for laws forcing companies to sell isolated parts to third-parties. It's certainly a nice thing for a company to do, and I would take that into consideration during a purchase. To be analogous, the watch companies would need to be suing people for repairing their watches, perhaps by cannibalizing parts from other broken watches. I haven't heard of any watch makers doing that, and until they do, there is no attempt to subvert the doctrine of first-sale that we are seeing with the Lexmark case.