Supreme Court Considers Intellectual Property Issues In Current Term

During the current term, the Supreme Court has either heard or will be hearing oral arguments, and has either issued or will be issuing its ruling for three important intellectual property cases. In Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley and Sons, the Court issued its ruling regarding the "first sale" doctrine for copyrighted foreign works. In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Court heard oral arguments about its determination of whether or not human genes are patentable. And finally, in Bowman v. Monsanto, the Court has heard oral arguments and will be issuing its decision with regards to patent exhaustion as it pertains to selfreplicating technologies.

Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine for Foreign Works