Reselling products in the USA, Part II: “First Sales” doctrine in patent

09-04-2013 Print this page
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IPEG bericht: "Exhaustion,” also known as the “first sale doctrine,” has been the subject of two Supreme Court cases this term: Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons (copyright), which was decided on March 19, 2013, and Bowman v. Monsanto (patent), which was argued and submitted on February 19, 2013 and is awaiting decision. A prior post discussed Kirtsaeng from the copyright perspective; this post includes some preliminary observations on Kirtsaeng from a mostly patent perspective, and also discusses Bowman."

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