“Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes of the Lawes of England, first published in 1628, rarely influences the direction of modern US patent law. But that might be about to change. This December, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the case of Impression Products, Inc v. Lexmark International, Inc, Supreme Court Docket No 15-1189, concerning the scope of the patent exhaustion doctrine. The case will interest readers of this blog because it highlights the conceptual and doctrinal relationship between IP exhaustion and common law rules regarding restraints on alienation …” (more)
[Patrick Goold, New Private Law, 19 December]
First posted 2016-12-20 07:26:10
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