United States exhaustionfirst sale

Lexmark International Inc v Impression Products Inc

581 US 360 (2017)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year2017

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A patentee's decision to sell a product exhausts all patent rights in that item; post-sale restrictions do not give rise to patent infringement claims (patent exhaustion).

Area of Law

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