(February 3, 2017, 7:11 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A patentee may not avoid patent exhaustion “by selling its goods with putative post-sale restrictions attached,” Impression Products Inc. argues in a Jan. 17 brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the question of whether foreign sales exhaust a patent owner’s right to sue and if they can impose restrictions on the use of patented items to prevent an exhaustion of their rights (Impression Products Inc. v. Lexmark International Inc., No. 15-1189, U.S. Sup.)....