First sale doctrine
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From 243 U.S. 502 - Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company · 1917Most cited · 892 citing opinions
The right to vend is exhausted by a single, unconditional sale, the article sold being thereby carried outside the monopoly of the patent law and rendered free of every restriction which the vendor may attempt to put upon it.