IP Topics
By
Michael J. Lennon
- October 2009
This article first appeared in the Licensing in the Boardroom 2009 supplement of the October 2009 edition of Intellectual Asset Management magazine.
While the patent exhaustion doctrine can help patent owners control the further use of their products, there is disagreement over how far downstream it applies. Post-Quanta uncertainty still lingers over whether foreign sales exhaust patent rights.