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Quanta v. LGE ruling by US Supreme Court on 9 June 2008
Quanta v. LGE is a 2008 decision by the US Supreme Court which had a big influence on patent exhaustion.
The context
- LGE purchased patents
- LGE licensed those patents to Intel
- Quanta purchased chips from Intel
- Quanta sold computers with the Intel chips plus non-Intel chips
- LGE sued Quanta
- The Supreme Court said: "the exhaustion doctrine prevents LGE from further asserting its patent rights with respect to the patents substantially embodied by those [Quanta] products"
