Asserted Method Claims Exhausted by Patentee’s Sale of Product: Federal Circuit | Practical Law
In Keurig, Inc. v. Sturm Foods, Inc., the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement based on a finding that Keurig, the patentee, exhausted its rights to assert infringement of method claims by its initial authorized sale of a patented product used to carry out the method.