News & Analysis as of

Appeals › Limelight v Akamai

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

2017 Supreme Court and Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit, With Some Significant Cases from 2016

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on

Arbitration - Waymo v. Uber Technologies, 870 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2017) - Waymo sued Uber and others for trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement. Uber contends that Waymo should be compelled to...more

Weintraub Tobin

Divided Infringement: A Stronger Sword for Plaintiffs

Weintraub Tobin on

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has established a new test for “divided” patent infringement. Direct infringement of a method patent exists when a single party performs all of the steps of the claimed method. 35 U.S.C....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Resolves Divided Infringement Dispute by Broadening “Direction and Control” Standard

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, recently held that certain method claims in a patent owned by Akamai Technologies were infringed by Akamai’s...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

En banc Federal Circuit broadens multiple-actor direct infringement (Akamai v. Limelight)

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on

Today, the Federal Circuit sitting en banc changed direction again on § 271(a) direct infringement and ruled that Limelight was liable for direct infringement based on substantial evidence supporting the jury verdict of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

A Single Entity Must Perform All Steps of a Method Claim in Order to Commit Direct Infringement - Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight...

McDermott Will & Emery on

Following a remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed its prior panel decision, holding that direct infringement liability of a method claim under 271 U.S.C. § 271(a) only...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Federal Circuit Finds No Direct Infringement Where Limelight's Customer—and Not Limelight—Performs Required Step of Method Claim

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on

On May 13, 2015, a divided Federal Circuit held that Limelight did not infringe Akamai's asserted method claim because Limelight did not perform all steps of the asserted method claims, and because there was no foundation on...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Patent Case: Federal Circuit Provides Guidance On Direct Infringement (Akamai V. Limelight)

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on

Today, a Federal Circuit panel, Judges Prost, Linn (author) and Moore (dissent), issued its long-awaited decision in the Akamia v. Limelight case following remand from the Supreme Court to consider the issue of multiple-actor...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Upholds Joint Infringement Defense in On-Going Akamai Litigation

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on

In a 2-1 decision handed down May 13, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld what has become known as the “joint infringement defense,” under which a method claim is not infringed where the claimed steps...more

8 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide