Can Your Patent Block Repair and Resale and Prevent Arbitrage?
Patent – Patently-O 2017-01-31
Summary:
by Dennis Crouch The first rounds of merits briefs have now been submitted to the Supreme Court in Impression Prods. v. Lexmark. The case questions the extent a patentee can control the entire resale and repair market for its products. For products originally sold in the US, the Federal Circuit held that express use/resale limits at the point of first-sale are […]