America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner

Category: exhaustion

May 30, 2013

Do I Smell A Lemon (Coke)? A Twist on Parallel Importation

Coca-Cola has been sold in Israel for a long time; while its main competitor was still complying with the Arab boycott, Coke was not only marketing its product here, but…
March 12, 2012

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: More Hypocrisy From The USA Regarding Israel’s IP Regime; Death Knell for a Bad Supreme Court Decision?

To the extent I’ve had time to post over the last few months, most of the posts have been devoted to the adoption of legislation enabling 18-month publication of patent…
December 27, 2010

A Non-Exhaustive Look at Exhaustion: U.S. Supreme Court Passes on Chance to Review Exhaustion Doctrine in Patent Cases

Last spring I wrote this blog entry about global exhaustion of rights in the patent sphere versus in the copyright sphere, with an eye toward then-the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court…

I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.