{"id":467,"date":"2012-06-16T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/\/?p=467"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:54:29","slug":"the-misinterpretation-of-the-patent-exhaustion-doctrine-and-the-transgenic-seed-industry-in-light-of-quanta-v-lg-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/the-misinterpretation-of-the-patent-exhaustion-doctrine-and-the-transgenic-seed-industry-in-light-of-quanta-v-lg-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misinterpretation of the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine and the Transgenic Seed Industry in Light of Quanta v. LG Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s recent interpretation of the patent exhaustion doctrine mandates that the transgenic seed industry use contract law instead of patent law to enforce post-sale restrictions. Prior to Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., the federal district courts and the Federal Circuit held that patent exhaustion was not triggered if a sale was restricted and that post-sale restrictions are enforceable under federal patent law. In Quanta, the Court held that all authorized sales trigger patent exhaustion regardless of restrictions and that post-sale restrictions are not enforceable under patent law. Although Quanta is a case about computer components, the Court\u2019s decision affects the transgenic seed industry. Both the computer industry and the transgenic seed industry relied heavily upon the same pre-Quanta federal case law for interpretation of the patent exhaustion doctrine. This broad holding removes uniform federal remedies under patent law for violating post-sale restrictions, and the seed industry must now rely on a patchwork of state contract law to enforce post-sale restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s recent interpretation of the patent exhaustion doctrine mandates that the transgenic seed industry use contract law instead of patent law to enforce post-sale restrictions. Prior to Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., the federal district courts and the Federal Circuit held that patent exhaustion was not triggered if a sale was <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/the-misinterpretation-of-the-patent-exhaustion-doctrine-and-the-transgenic-seed-industry-in-light-of-quanta-v-lg-electronics\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,21,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}