In what the Auto Care Association calls a “major victory for the auto care industry.” the Supreme Court upheld the legal precedent of patent exhaustion, which states that a company’s right to protect its patent ends when the product is sold to the end user.
Information from an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court by the Association was used by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in reversing a Federal Circuit decision that the Association was concerned would have been damaging to the manufacture and sales of aftermarket parts as well as independently remanufactured or rebuilt components.
The case,
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