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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 05:45 PM EDT |
Why does patent exhaustion fall apart when the MPEG group finds out you have
made too much money selling your amateur movie?
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Bondfire
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 09:53 PM EDT |
It's not likely that any part of the case will be about
that. It's more likely that MMP will claim that they didn't
license their patents to anybody in the supply chain. As a
result, the patent was never exhausted. "Exhausted" means
"used up." Theirs isn't used up, because they haven't gotten
*anything* out of it (yet), all the way to the customer.
In that situation, they get to sue anybody in the supply
chain that they can catch. That person/corporation can then
try a few maneuvers that amount to wriggling off the hook by
putting somebody else on it instead, but that's not MMP's
job. MMP might not even *know* who the manufacturer is.
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