post-expiration royalties
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 29 - Brulotte v. Thys Co. · 1964Most cited · 424 citing opinions
a patentee's use of a royalty agreement that projects beyond the expiration date of the patent is unlawful per se. If that device were available to patentees, the free market visualized for the post-expiration period would be subject to monopoly influences that have no proper place there.
How often courts cite the case defining “post-expiration royalties”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “post-expiration royalties” — 424 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.