Selling or Giving Away Glucose Meters Exhausted Patent Owner's Rights in Patented Method: Federal Circuit | Practical Law
On November 4, 2013, in LifeScan Scotland, Ltd. v. Shasta Technologies, LLC, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the US District Court for the Northern District of California's grant of a preliminary injunction in favor of LifeScan finding that Shasta established a patent exhaustion defense as a matter of law.