6th Circuit Agrees: No Royalties To Inventor After Patent’s Expiration

( January 27, 2025, 2:18 PM EST) -- CINCINATTI — A federal judge in Michigan was right to find that a health care company owed no further royalties to the inventor of eye-test machines after the expiration of his patent, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Jan. 24, saying that the parties agreed to a royalty rate based on use of the patent itself....