SCOTUS decision -- Seems to curtail some patent enforcement

jeudi 1 juin 2017

A very-recent Supreme Court decision seems to forbid patent-holders from exercising control over their products once the product has been sold to a consumer. In this case, it was about reusing a printer toner-cartridge.

"To help make its case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. used an analogy: Take a shop that restores and sells used cars. The business works because the shop can rest assured that, so long as those bringing in the cars own them, the shop is free to repair and resell...

SCOTUS decision -- Seems to curtail some patent enforcement

SCOTUS decision -- Seems to curtail some patent enforcement

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