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Patent Exhaustion: Licensing Handset Manufacturers Did not Exhaust Patent as to Downstream Content Providers

A patent holder has exclusive rights in the patented invention and a cause of action against “whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells” the invention. 35 U.S.C. 271(a). One limit on those rights is the non-statutory doctrine …
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