Legal Opinion
Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 9, 2008No. 06-937PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
For over 150 years this Court has applied the doctrine of patent exhaustion to limit the patent rights that survive the initial authorized sale of a patented item. In this case, we decide whether patent exhaustion applies to the sale of components of a patented system that must be combined with additional components in order to practice the patented methods. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the doctrine does not apply to method patents at all and, in the alternative, that it does not apply here because the sales were not authorized by the license agreement. We disagree…
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