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Can I prevent customers of my licensee from using my patent?

The first sale doctrine usually exhausts the patent holder's exclusionary rights, but the license contract can be drafted to limit the substantive and geographical scope of the license and thereby minimize the dangers of downstream unauthorized use by the patent holder. Skillful drafting can also eliminate the possibility that a court will imply a patent license from the actions of the patent holder.

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