patent exhaustion doctrine

patent-exhaustion doctrine. Patents. The rule that the unconditioned sale of a patented article ends the patentee’s monopoly right to control its use. • That control may still be exercised by limitations in a contract or license, as long as it does not amount to anticompetitive patent misuse. Adams v. Burke, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) 453 (1874). See FIRST-SALE DOCTRINE. [Cases: Patents 191. C.J.S. Patents §§ 217, 314, 339.]

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