On May 30, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc., No. 15-1189, holding that a patentee’s sale of a product, whether domestically or abroad, exhausts all of its patent rights in...more
On June 22, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, No. 13-720, declining to overrule Brulotte v. Thys Co., 379 U.S. 29 (1964), and holding that a contract transferring or licensing patent...more