HIGH COURT WILL REVIEW APPLICABILITY OF FIRST-SALE DOCTRINE TO PRINTER TONER CARTRIDGES SOLD WITH SINGLE-USE RESTRICTION OR IMPORTED AFTER FOREIGN SALE

摘要

Granting certiorari in a patent infringement case brought by a manufacturer of toner cartridges for the manufacturer's printers, the United States Supreme Court will consider the applicability of the common-law exhaustion doctrine, also known as the first-sale doctrine, to domestic sales with a single-useo-resale restriction and to importation after foreign sales with or without the restriction. Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Intern., Inc., 2016 WL 1117396 (U.S. 2016)