Blog posts of '2017' 'June'

Remember the days when you secured your Yellow Pages listing in the "telephone directory style" publication that was actually printed and physically distributed to millions of people around the country? You probably do, it wasn't that long ago, and it was perhaps one of the methods you counted on for potential customers to find your business.

After nearly 20 years of controversy and litigation, the question of first sale and patent exhaustion was ruled on by the United States Supreme Court as it held that "the authorized sale of a patented product, anywhere in the world, exhausts the patent holder's rights in that product." The Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit on domestic exhaustion (8-0) and international (7-1).

Here's a shot at a seventy-five-word summary of a typical independent office products reseller's current predicament.