This right therefore of the covenantee relinquished, is a release of the covenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

A covenantee may not, but then again, standing to sue on the patent is not a requirement to trigger exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

And generally all covenants are dischargeable by the covenantee, to whose benefit, and by whose right, he that maketh the covenant is obliged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

Under the Quanta analysis, the covenant does not have to extend to customers to trigger exhaustion because it only has to protect the seller (i.e., the covenantee).    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

If the covenantee is therefore off the hook from any liability to the patentee, then its sales to its customers have been made with the blessing of the patent holder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

So the statement that a covenant cannot be a license or give rise to an implied license because it is only personal to the covenantee and does not extend to customers is really a non-sequiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

The judges gave their services for nothing, and, for once, released from all their own trammels, set to work to do substantial justice between landlord and tenant, personalty and realty, the life interest and the remainder, covenantor and covenantee, after a fashion which excited the admiration and won the confidence of the whole City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]

Nor can the covenantee understand the covenanter to promise impossibles; for they fall not under deliberation: and consequently (by chap. XIII, sect. 10, which maketh the covenantee interpreter), no covenant is understood to bind further, than to our best endeavour, either in performance of the thing promised, or in something equivalent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

However, in the Transcore case, the covenantee (i.e.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference