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Princo Corporation v. International Trade Commission

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on May 16, 2011.

Docket No.10-898
Op. BelowFed. Circuit

Issue

Should the equitable doctrine of patent misuse remain a flexible doctrine to be applied when a patent holder has impermissibly attempted to extend the scope of his patent, or, as the Federal Circuit has held, be conditioned on a showing of "leveraging," "with anticompetitive effects" and in a manner previously "held to be outside...the patent grant"?

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