US Supreme Court overturns Federal Circuit patent exhaustion stance in Impression v Lexmark

May 31 2017

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The US Supreme Court has ruled that patents rights in a product are exhausted after sale in the US or internationally, in a decision that included some strongly-worded pushback of the Federal Circuit. Pharmaceutical companies could be particularly affected because of their downstream licensing models

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