Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 19, 2007
Extraterritorial Opinion
Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - A new Supreme Court ruling has important implications for the enforcement of American patents overseas.
By Gary Shapiro
The U.S. Supreme Court handed Microsoft a major victory on April 30 when it held that the company's export of Windows software does not constitute patent infringement under Section 271(f) of the Patent Act. (Microsoft v. AT&T Corp., U.S. No. 05-1056, 4/30/07). The 7-1 decision (per Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) reversed a ruling of the U...
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