Intellectual Property
Dec. 23, 2016
Justices weigh reach of US patent laws
The Supreme Court appears poised to limit the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patent law in Life Technologies v. Promega. By Robert Benson and Neel Chatterjee
A key issue in patent litigation is the risk associated with foreign activities that have some relationship to a U.S. patent. One of the key issues asks the question of what happens when a component is manufactured in the United States, exported and then used in a larger device abroad, when the larger device meets all the elements of a patent claim. At its heart, this is a question of the extraterritorial rea...
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