Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc., and Jerry A. Alexander

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• remanding for a determination of whether the patentee's single-use restriction on its medical device was reasonable and within the scope of its patent
• vacating injunction against infringement notices where no bad faith was alleged
• “The principle of exhaustion of the patent right [does] not turn a conditional sale into an unconditional one.”
• a licensing practice is “reasonably within the patent grant” if “it relates to subject matter within the scope of the patent claims”
• “[A] restrictive license to a particular use [i]s permissible.”

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