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Mr. Carr is a Counsel at Zuber & Taillieu LLP, where he specializes in patent and trademark prosecution. He earned a J.D. with high honors from Pepperdine University School of Law, and is a member of the California Bar and the U.S. Patent Bar.

Quanta Computer V. LG Electronics: Reviving Exhaustion, Applying it to Method Patents

In the case Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics, ___ U.S. ____, 128 S.Ct. 2109 (2008), the United States Supreme Court clarifies and expands upon its holding in United States v. Univis Lens Co. In Univis, where the court held that a patent is exhausted upon the sale of unfinished components that substantially embody the patent and which have no use except to practice the patent. In Quanta, the court clarified that the same analysis applies to process or method patents, not just product patents. Read

By: John Carr | 15/08/2008 | Patents