WIPR survey: Readers back Federal Circuit on patent exhaustion
A patent owner’s rights should not be exhausted when a patent-protected product is first sold abroad before being imported into the US, WIPR readers have said.
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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.