Comments on: Federal Circuit Permits Multi-Party Infringement, But Only For Inducement

By: gold price

gold price — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:08:08 +0000

The problem (according to the majority): “[r]ecent precedents of this court have interpreted section 271(b) to mean that unless the accused infringer directs or controls the actions of the party or parties that are performing the claimed steps, the patentee has no remedy, even though the patentee’s rights are plainly being violated by the actors’ joint conduct.” This is the wrong approach, according to the opinion, but only a bare majority of the Court decided not to decide the question of whether there can be direct infringement when no single actor performs all the method steps, stating that induced infringement can be used to decide the questions in both cases.

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Global Week in Review 5 Sept 2012 from IP Think Tank — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:26:51 +0000

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Inventive step | Platformblog — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:37:15 +0000

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