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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.
NOTE: this page is very incomplete. It currently serves as a place to document the case to see if there are important aspects for software patents.
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"
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External links
- [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-937.ZS.html QUANTA COMPUTER, INC. v. LG ELECTRONICS, INC. (No. 06-937)
453 F. 3d 1364, reversed.]
- Quanta Computer V. LG Electronics: Reviving Exhaustion, Applying it to Method Patents, (date?), Lawyer of Phoenix
