The U.S. Supreme Court in a recent ruling has opined on the rights of a purchaser to use and resell patented products.The patent system give the patent owner the right to exclude others from making, using, and selling the patented invention, for the life of the patent. The right to exclude, however, is subject to the rule of patent exhaustion - upon the sale of a patented product, the patent owner's patent rights are exhausted and the buyer is ...
