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Couldn't find the vote without teasing it out of the text - It was an 8-0 decision, with a minor dissent from Ginsburg on what happens when a product is sold i

• test6554 9y ago
  Where did they land on the foreign territory scenario? I only saw that the lower courts thought foreign territories did not cause patent rights to expire.
  • sbuttgereit 9y ago
    They said those rights were exhausted as well. That was the point on which Ginsburg dissented; in my non-lawyerly paraphrasing it sounded as though she saw foreign patent law as something that could not be exhausted on the same grounds as domestic patent law (being foreign and all). I saw some citations of trade-treaties and such (Bern Convention) in her dissent, but didn't go farther. She joined on the the domestic point.