(March 2, 2017, 8:33 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The exhaustion doctrine allows patentees and buyers “to tailor a sale to convey only the authority the buyer wants to pay for,” Lexmark International Inc. argues in a Feb. 16 response brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, further saying that nothing requires that every sale of a patented article convey full authority under the patent (Impression Products Inc. v. Lexmark International Inc., No. 15-1189, U.S. Sup.)....