The franchise which the patent grants, consists altogether in the right to exclude every one from making, using, or vending the thing patented, without the permission of the patentee. This is all that he obtains by the patent

W] hen the machine passes to the hands of the purchaser, it is no longer within the limits of the monopoly

It passes outside of it, and is no longer under the protection of the act of Congress... The implement or machine becomes his private, individual property, not protected by the laws of the United States, but by the laws of the State in which it is situated.

In the exclusive rights to make, use, and vend, fairly construed, with a view to making the purpose of Congress effectual, reside the extent of the patent monopoly under the statutes of the United States.

The right of the owner of a patented machine, without any conditions attached to his ownership, to continue the use of his machine during an extended term of the patent, is well settled.

That absurd result would cast a cloud of uncertainty over every sale, and every product in the possession of a customer of the licensee, and would be wholly inconsistent with the fundamental purpose of patent exhaustion—to prohibit postsale restrictions on the use of a patented article.

But sale of it exhausts the monopoly in that article and the patentee may not thereafter, by virtue of his patent, control the use or disposition of the article.

[CITATION] FIRE EXTINGUISHER MANUF'CO. v. Graham