CASE HIGHLIGHTS

摘要

The patent exhaustion doctrine barred a patentee's infringement claims against two manufacturers of mobile devices, insofar as those claims arose after patentee entered into licensing agreement with its licensee. Pursuant to that agreement, the licensee was authorized to convey to the manufacturers an operating system that practiced the licensed patent for a method and apparatus for preserving precise exceptions in binary translated code, which it did. Also, this operating system substantially embodied the patented method and apparatus and it had no reasonable, noninfringing uses, since users had the ability to enable a different component within that system, but making that change created a risk of breaking the system's implementations and third-party applications. See Cascades Computer Innovation, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 2014 WL 4553226 (N.D. Ill. 2014).