Patent Exhaustion
02.12.16
On Friday (February 12, 2016), the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit retained its long-standing rule that overseas sales of a product don’t exhaust a patent owner’s right to sue in the U.S. The case is Lexmark International, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc., 2014 – 1617, 2014 – 1619 (Decided Feb. 12, 2016) and can currently be found here.
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