United States exhaustionfirst sale

Lexmark International Inc v Impression Products Inc

Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., 581 U.S. 360 (2017)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year2017

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A patentee's authorised sale of a patented article exhausts all patent rights in that item regardless of any post-sale use or resale restrictions the patentee purports to impose, and an authorised sale anywhere in the world (including abroad) likewise exhausts the patentee's U.S. patent rights.

Area of Law

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