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noun- The person to whom a promise is made.

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  • This right therefore of the covenantee relinquished, is a release of the covenant.
  • A covenantee may not, but then again, standing to sue on the patent is not a requirement to trigger exhaustion.
  • A covenant not to sue could be different from a license in that it provides no standing to the covenantee to enforce the patent rights.
  • And generally all covenants are dischargeable by the covenantee, to whose benefit, and by whose right, he that maketh the covenant is obliged.
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