<div dir="ltr">Take this:<br><br><a href="https://www.winston.com/en/where-we-are/north-america/silicon-valley.html#!/en/thought-leadership/supreme-court-holds-that-patent-exhaustion-applies-to-all-sales.html?aj=ov&parent=6585&idx=1">https://www.winston.com/en/where-we-are/north-america/silicon-valley.html#!/en/thought-leadership/supreme-court-holds-that-patent-exhaustion-applies-to-all-sales.html?aj=ov&parent=6585&idx=1</a><br><br>"In yet another rebuke to the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday in Impression Products v. Lexmark International that the doctrine of patent exhaustion bars a patentee from interfering with a legitimate purchaser’s downstream uses of a patented product.  ... Lexmark gave up the right to sue buyers or users for patent infringement—even if they violated the limitations on post-sale use or resale. The Court explained that Lexmark’s remedy, if any, is to sue the original buyer for breach of contract. "<div><br>Same as with copyright "first sale" / "exhaustion".  <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mi., 17. Juli 2019 um 16:47 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 9:17 AM Alexander Terekhov <<a href="mailto:herr.alter@gmail.com" target="_blank">herr.alter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Story end:<br><br><a href="https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2016/10/31/secondary-software-2016/" target="_blank">https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2016/10/31/secondary-software-2016/</a><br><a href="https://www.usedsoft.com/en/lawyer-christian-ballke-on-the-legal-basis-for-the-trade-in-used-software/" target="_blank">https://www.usedsoft.com/en/lawyer-christian-ballke-on-the-legal-basis-for-the-trade-in-used-software/</a><br><br>Funny:<br><br><a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110929014241932" target="_blank">http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110929014241932</a><br>("Psystar Loses its Appeal; Licensees Have No First-Sale Rights; Costs Awarded to Apple ~ pj")<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To assume that the first sale doctrine is the same in the EU (your first two links) and the U.S. (your third link) is absurd.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan          <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan" target="_blank">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a>        <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>The internet is a web of tiny tyrannies giving an illusion of anarchy.<br>                --David Rush<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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