Exhaustion under Judge Rich
Patent – Patently-O 2017-01-26
Summary:
Reading Prof. John Witherspoon’s recent remarks about Judge Giles S. Rich led me to a 1999 interview of Judge Rich by Prof. Janice Mueller titled An Interview with Judge Giles S. Rich, 9 FED. CIR. B.J. 75 (1999). One of the topics discussed was the doctrine of patent exhaustion – also known as the first sale doctrine. […]