Patent Law vs Property Law in Impression Prods. v. Lexmark Int’l.
Patent – Patently-O 2016-12-05
Summary:
by Dennis Crouch I finally predicted something! The Supreme Court has now granted writ of certiorari in the pending patent exhaustion case of Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., SCT Docket No. 15-1189. The two questions presented involve domestic and international exhaustion respectively. The “patent exhaustion doctrine”—also known as the “first sale doctrine”—holds that “the […]