Today in Lexmark International, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(en banc)(Taranto, J.), an en banc majority maintained the court’s prior holdings in (a)Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc., 976 F.2d 700 (Fed. Cir. 1992)(upholding restrictions to deny exhaustion), cf. Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008); and (b) Jazz Photo Corp. v. International Trade Commission, 264 F.3d 1094 (Fed. Cir. 2001)(denying international patent exhaustion), cf. Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 133 S.Ct. 1361 (2013)(establishing international copyright exhaustion).
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Hal