Legal Opinion
Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 2006No. 04-1329PublishedCited by 208 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
In Jefferson Parish Hospital Dist. No. 2 v. Hyde, 466 U. S. 2 (1984), we repeated the well-settled proposition that “if the Government has granted the seller a patent or similar monopoly over a product, it is fair to presume that the inability to buy the product elsewhere gives the seller market power.” Id., at 16. This presumption of market power, applicable in the antitrust context when a seller conditions its sale of a patented product (the “tying” product) on the purchase of a second product (the “tied” product), has its foundation in the judicially created patent misuse doctrine. See…
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