Supreme Court of the United States

Impression Products, Inc., Petitioner v. Lexmark International, I — Ginsburg, J., Concurring in Part and Dissenting…

May 30, 2017137 S. Ct. 1523

Summary

Justice Ginsburg concurs with the Court’s holding that a domestic sale exhausts U.S. patent rights, but dissents from the majority’s view that a foreign sale likewise exhausts those rights, arguing that patent law is territorial and foreign sales do not diminish U.S. patent protection.