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Patent exhaustion

Revision as of 18:47, 16 November 2010 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (* [http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/11/guest-post-copyrights-patents-and-international-exhaustion.html Copyrights, Patents, and International Exhaustion], 16 Nov 2010, '''Patently-O''')

Patent exhaustion limits the rights of patent holders to enforce their patents against downstream customers. It is closely related to the "first sale doctrine". Both concepts exist in the USA, and similar probably exists in other countries.

In the USA, patent exhaustion is defined in two Supreme Court cases:

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