[License-discuss] IP licensing: Specific performance (or damages) vs. Infringement - algorithm for (C++) programmers

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Jul 26 19:16:48 UTC 2019


*From:* Alexander Terekhov [mailto:herr.alter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2019 10:05 AM
>



>
"A purchaser has the right to use, sell, or import an item because those
> are the rights that come along with ownership, not because it purchased
> authority to engage in those practices"
> https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1189_ebfj.pdf
>

Well, this quotation is nothing to the purpose, being lifted out of
context.  But it's always enjoyable to read an opinion by the Supremes that
(a) spanks the Federal Patent-holder's Circuit yet again for its chronic
overreach (b) quotes Coke.


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
A: "Spiro conjectures Ex-Lax."
Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?"
  --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists
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