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21 April 2016Patents

EFF petitions SCOTUS over ‘troubling’ patent exhaustion ruling

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has urged the US Supreme Court to hear and overturn a “troubling decision” handed down by an appeals court that centres on patent exhaustion.

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