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Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Rules on Patent Damages Based on Foreign Conduct

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The Federal Circuit has ruled that a US patent-holder plaintiff may be able to recover damages for a defendant’s foreign sales of infringing products if the foreign sales were proximately caused by the defendant’s improperly...more

Hogan Lovells

Standard Essential Patent Update – August 2018

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In the August 2018 edition of Hogan Lovells’ Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Update, we report on recent news and case decisions from China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This bi-monthly newsletter...more

Sunstein LLP

July 2018 IP Update: In Limited Circumstances, the Supreme Court Permits Businesses to Recover Patent Damages for Sales Made...

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The Supreme Court recently answered the question whether a patent owner can collect damages caused by an infringer’s sales outside the U.S. Federal law typically reaches only conduct within the country, but the justices made...more

Hogan Lovells

U.S. + Germany Patent Update – July 2018

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The prominent state of patent litigation in the United States and Germany is due not only to the size of its markets, but also to a recent increase in hearings before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Patent...more

Jackson Walker

Extraterritorial Reach Of Patents— Impact Of Recent Supreme Court Decisions

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Jackson Walker partner Leisa Talbert Peschel spoke at the 14th Annual Advanced Patent Litigation Course on Thursday, July 12, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, Colorado. ...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Patents: Lost & Found WesternGeco Provides for Recovery of Lost Foreign Profits

Patents are valuable intellectual property assets that grant their owners a limited monopoly over the sale and use of the patented subject matter for a fixed period of time. The patent permits its owner to recover potentially...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical

Lost Foreign Profits Awarded as Damages - It is an act of infringement under U.S. patent law to supply “in or from the United States” certain components of a patented invention with the intent that they “will be combined...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

WesternGeco LLC v. ION GeoPhysical: U.S. Supreme Court Issues Decision on Patent Damages

On June 22, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in WesternGeco LLC v. ION GeoPhysical, which addresses the ability of a patent owner to collect lost profits from sales abroad for infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2)....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Component vs. Complete - the US Supreme Court imposes extraterritorial lost profits damages on parties that violate section...

On June 22, 2018, the US Supreme Court clarified the scope of permissible patent damages awards by holding that when a party is found liable under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) for exporting components of a patented invention, foreign...more

Snell & Wilmer

The Supreme Court to Consider Patent Infringement Damages Accrued Abroad

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The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to consider whether damages for infringement of a U.S. patent include lost profits resulting from activities outside the U.S....more

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Infringement Liability for US Products Sold Abroad: Could Supreme Court Reverse CAFC?

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A case currently pending petition to the United States Supreme Court could further define the scope of potential patent infringement liability for U.S. based companies that sell products intended to be used abroad. If the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Patent Exhaustion: Supreme Court Expands Patent-Limiting Doctrine

The U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the past term handed down a decision, Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., that greatly expanded the doctrine of patent exhaustion. This equitable doctrine prevents a...more

Hogan Lovells

U.S. - What does the Impression Products v. Lexmark decision mean for drug companies? 5 takeaways

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Last May, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly-anticipated decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc., reversing the Federal Circuit and holding that, when a patent holder sells a product, it exhausts all...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Exhausted!: The Supreme Court Weakens Patent Owners’ Rights to Enforce Post-Sale Restrictions on Patented Products

Patent owners have long imposed post-sale restrictions on their patented goods and relied on U.S. patent laws to enforce these restrictions. For instance, companies have sought to enforce “single use” restrictions on their...more

Morgan Lewis

Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.: Doctrine of Patent Exhaustion Limits Restraints on Alienation of Goods

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The US Patent Act gives patent holders the right to prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States or importing the invention into the United States. The premise behind...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

United States Supreme Court Decision In Impression Products Inc. V Lexmark International Inc.

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In 1628, Lord Coke in his “Institutes of the laws of England” summarized the common law on restraints on the alienation of chattels stating that any attempt by a seller to restrict resale or use of the chattel after selling...more

Fish & Richardson

Exhaustion and the “Right to Repair”: Ownership Rights after Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Intern., Inc.

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Hailed by some as the “right to repair”, on May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that a seller’s patent rights are not valid beyond the first sale of the patented product. Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Intern., Inc....more

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Supreme Court Cuts Back Patent Owners’ Post-Sale Rights

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Patent owners can no longer restrict the use of their patented products after the products are sold. Under the doctrine of patent exhaustion, a patent owner’s rights are “exhausted” once the patent owner sells the product. ...more

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Supreme Court Expands Scope of Patent Exhaustion

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In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a patent owner's initial sale of a product, in the U.S. or in a foreign country, exhausts all of the U.S. patent rights in...more

Hogan Lovells

U.S. - The Supreme Court grants purchasers free “use and enjoyment” of patented items… mostly

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An authorized sale exhausts all patent rights in the item sold. In Impression Products Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. No. 15-1189, May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court found that patent exhaustion is “uniform and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Supreme Court Limits Patent Owners’ Ability to Control Post-Sale Use of Patented Products

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The Supreme Court last week issued its long-awaited decision regarding patent exhaustion in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International. The decision, which overturns longstanding Federal Circuit precedent, curtails...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Supreme Court's Lexmark Decision Expands Scope of Patent Exhaustion Defense

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For the fifth time this session, and following fast on the heels of its landmark decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods earlier in May, the Supreme Court again reversed the Federal Circuit. The case, Impression Products,...more

K&L Gates LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Rights of Patent Owners

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On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court limited a patent owner’s ability to control products after an authorized initial sale. In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., the Court reversed long-standing...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

First Sale Extinguishes Patent Rights: Supreme Court Guts Manufacturer Control Over Secondary Market

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Manufacturers have long used patents, licenses and litigation to deter competitive products and restrict secondary markets in their products. The U.S. Supreme Court just dealt these practices a severe blow, confirming that a...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The Supreme Court Rules that Patent Rights are Exhausted by a Sale, in the U.S. and Abroad

The Supreme Court issued a 7-1 ruling in Impression Prod., Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc. that eliminated the ability for a patent holder (“patentee”) to enforce, through patent law, post-sale restrictions on an authorized...more

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