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Physicians Direct Infringement

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

The Federal Circuit Found Direct Infringement Attributable to Physicians Where “No Single Actor Performs All Steps of a Claim"

Can a patient’s action in taking a generic drug be attributable to a physician such that it can support a finding of the physician’s direct patent infringement? According to a recent precedential opinion of the Court of...more

Locke Lord LLP

Direct Infringement Prong of 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) in a Hatch-Waxman Case May Be Satisfied When the Prescribing Physician Directs or...

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On January 12, 2017, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holding that, under Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 797 F.3d 1020, 1022 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc), the acts of patients may be...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Divided Infringement Between Doctor and Patient

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Recent jurisprudence on the issue of divided infringement has arisen in the context of computer-related technologies, where a user or customer performs one or more steps of a patented method. Now the issue has arisen in the...more

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