induced infringement

EDVA Court Sets Low Bar for Indirect Patent Infringement Claims Under Twombley/Iqbal

Dabney Carr
August 31, 2011 22:06

For the first time, an Eastern District of Virginia judge has addressed claims of indirect patent infringement claims under Twombly and Iqbal, and it appears that a plaintiff needs only to recite the elements of induced or contributory infringement to defeat a motion to dismiss. The...

EDVA Court Sets Low Bar for Indirect Patent Infringement Claims Under Twombly/Iqbal

Dabney Carr
August 31, 2011 22:06

For the first time, an Eastern District of Virginia judge has addressed claims of indirect patent infringement claims under Twombly and Iqbal, and it appears that a plaintiff needs only to recite the elements of induced or contributory infringement to defeat a motion to dismiss. The...

Judge Lee applies Therasense and Global-Tech in Summary Judgment Ruling

Dabney Carr
August 24, 2011 19:58

Among his eleven summary judgment rulings in MeadWestvaco’s (“MWV”) patent infringement suit against Rexam and Valois, Judge Lee dismissed claims of inequitable conduct  under Therasense but allowed claims of inducement of infringement to survive under the Supreme...

Supreme Court Rules that "Willful Blindness" is Sufficient for Inducement of Patent Infringement

Dabney Carr
May 31, 2011 20:07

In a near unanimous, 8 to 1, decision  today, the Supreme Court held that induced infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) requires knowledge that the induced acts constitute patent infringement but such knowledge need not rise to the level of actual knowledge. Global-Tech...

Supreme Court to Hear Argument on Requirements for Inducement of Patent Infringement

Dabney Carr
January 17, 2011 21:53

The Supreme Court has scheduled argument in the case of Global-Tech Appliances Inc. v. SEB S.A. for February 23, and, coincidentally, we published an article last week in BNA’s Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal (found here), analyzing the issues the Court will address and predicting...