Legal Opinion
Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 2, 2014No. 12-786PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Alito
*917 This case presents the question whether a defendant may be liable for inducing infringement of a patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271 (b) when no one has directly infringed the patent under § 271(a) or any other statutory provision. The statutory text and structure and our prior case law require that we answer this question in the negative. We accordingly reverse the Federal Circuit, which reached the opposite conclusion.
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Respondent the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the assignee of U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703 ('703 patent), which *918 claims a method of delivering electronic data using a…
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