Mark, Regarding LG Vs Quanta:
"To the extent the Court’s decision is merely one of contract interpretation,
suggesting that a better-written contract would have been
respected by the Court, then the case is largely unremarkable.
This article suggests that the contract with INTEL was not clearly and strongly written.
LG was offering INTEL a slice of bread, NOT the whole loaf, but in this case,
the SP interpreted the contract differently."
‘‘Patent exhaustion’’ is a misnomer. To think clearly about
this fact, one must consider two things: (1) the meaning of
‘‘exhaustion’’; and (2) the nature of the patent right. ‘‘Exhaustion’’
means the state of having been drained or used up
completely. It assumes there was something there to begin
with that could be used up. The patent right, as recognized
by the Supreme Court in
Bloomer v. McQuewan
, 55 U.S. (14
Mark,
This "IS" a complicated issue.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/scr/2008/Qu...
IMO we ALL need to get on the band wagon again in writing letters to Congress opposing Patent Reform!!
I recently heard that 1 letter or 1 call represents 1000 voices to our Congressmen and women. So if 100 of us write, that is 100,000 voices saying NO to Patent Reform.
