Avoiding Or Living With Patent Exhaustion by Marc A. Sockol and Karen Canaan

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Law360, New York (June 22, 2009) -- This guest column addresses ideas on how to avoid or live with patent exhaustion, especially for the biotechnology sector.

Patent exhaustion (also known as the "first-sale doctrine") precludes a patent owner from collecting multiple times on its patent rights.

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