Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
581 U.S. 360 · 2017
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 109 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 35 U.S.C. § 154 · 35 U.S.C. § 271
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Solimino · Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company · United States v. General Electric Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“marks the point where patent rights yield to the common law principle against restraints on alienation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This case presents two questions about the scope of the patent exhaustion doctrine: First, whether a patentee that sells an item under an express restriction on the purchaser's right to reuse or resell the product may enforce that restriction through an infringement lawsuit. And second, whether a patentee exhausts its patent rights by selling its product outside the United States, where American patent laws do not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As Lord Coke put it in the 17th century, if an owner restricts the resale or use of an item after selling it, that restriction 'is voide, because ... it is against Trade and Traffique, and bargaining and contracting betweene man and man.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.