Implied license laws and the exhaustion doctrine crucially impact the drafting and negotiation of patent licenses. This presentation analyzes the case law that interprets these two doctrines. This presentation also provides frameworks for analyzing ...
Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark, Intl., Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1523 (2017) Some patent owners sell products in fields in which there is strong demand for used products or the servicing/repair of used products. Patent owners in these fields are ...
U.S. patent law authorizes an inventor to secure patent protection for inventive machines, articles of manufacture, methods, and compositions that are useful. 35 USC 101. Patent protection allows the patentee to exclude others from making, using, ...
Joint development research often results in the joint creation of an invention. In the patent world, this makes the creators not just joint inventors, but also joint owners of that invention. The provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 262 expressly state that ...
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The Supreme Court emphasizes the importance of preserving the sanctity of stare decisis to guide judicial decisions. See Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, 135 S. Ct. 2401 (2015). Yet, cases in the area of patent exhaustion appear to lose sight of ...
The repair v. reconstruction doctrine (RRD) also limits patent scope. You are significantly impacted by the RRD if you sell patented items, such as capital equipment, for which there is a sizeable used equipment or repair markets. You also are ...
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