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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16 February 2016 A US patent owner’s rights are not exhausted when a protected product is sold outside the country’s borders, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled.
27 February 2017 US-based electronics company Plantronics has filed an amicus brief in a patent exhaustion suit between Impression Products and Lexmark at the US Supreme Court.
20 March 2017 The US Supreme Court is due to hear oral arguments tomorrow in the Impression Products v Lexmark dispute, which centres on patent exhaustion.