United States Supreme Court
Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc., 06-937
In a patent case involving computer technology patents, a circuit court's ruling in favor of plaintiff-LG Electronics and against defendants-computer manufacturers is reversed where: 1) contrary to the holding below, the exhaustion doctrine applies to method patents; and 2) because a license agreement authorized the sale of components that substantially embodied the patents in suit, the sale exhausted the patents.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/09/2008
- Published 06/09/2008
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- United States Supreme Court