T HE modern law of intellectual property (" IP") includes-or is thought to include-not only
rules governing the existence and extent of rights (for example, rules about the validity and …

Modern international trade law seeks to increase global welfare by lowering barriers to trade
and encouraging international competition. This" free trade" approach, while originally …

STATIC CONTROL COMPONENTS v. LEXMARK INTER., INC. 615 F.Supp.2d 575 (2009)
STATIC CONTROL COMPONENTS, INC., Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant, v. LEXMARK …

Under tort law's theory of contribution, when one party is sued, it can implead other parties
that may be jointly and severally liable and ask that they pay their fair share of any judgment …

ABSTRACT A bedrock principle of patent law-patent exhaustion-proclaims that an
authorized sale of a patented article exhausts the patentee's rights with respect to the article …

Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co.'has been the foundation for one of
the basic commandments in patent law: there is no legally recognizable heart of an …

The first sale doctrine provides that when a patent holder unconditionally authorizes another
party to sell a patented item, the patent holder's right to exclude with respect to the patented …

The doctrine of patent exhaustion implies that the authorized sale of patented goods
“exhausts” the patent rights in the goods sold and precludes additional license fees from …

Imagine that Seller owns a valid patent for technology incorporated into a machine that
produces widgets. Buyer purchases the widget machine from Seller. As a condition of the …

Since the mid-1980s, agricultural biotechnology fir received patent protection for genetically
modified (" the self-replicating nature of GM seeds, the firms emp patent law and contract law …