{"id":12988,"date":"2015-03-31T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2015-03-31T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:20:52","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-hear-arguments-induced-patent-infringement-post-expiration-patent-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/u-s-supreme-court-hear-arguments-induced-patent-infringement-post-expiration-patent-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON INDUCED PATENT INFRINGEMENT AND POST-EXPIRATION PATENT ROYALTIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON INDUCED PATENT INFRINGEMENT AND POST-EXPIRATION PATENT ROYALTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two patent cases, <em>Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.<\/em>, 13-896 and<em> Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc.<\/em>, 13-720.\u00a0 IPO filed <em>amicus<\/em> briefs in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>At issue in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ipo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IPO-Comil-Brief_Filed.pdf\">Commil<\/a><\/em> is whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a defendant\u2019s belief that a patent is invalid is a defense to induced infringement under Patent Act section 271(b).\u00a0 Commil\u2019s patent claimed a method for providing mobile phone base station \u201chand-offs\u201d throughout a communications network. A split Federal Circuit panel overturned a district court\u2019s finding of inducement to infringe. A divided Federal Circuit denied a petition for <i>en banc<\/i> rehearing. To read the question presented as posted on the Supreme Court website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/qp\/13-00896qp.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ipo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IPO-Kimble-Brief_Filed.pdf\">Kimble<\/a><\/em>, the court will consider whether to overrule its 1964 opinion in <em>Brulotte v. Thys Co.<\/em>, which held that a license agreement requiring royalty payments for use of a patented invention after the expiration of the patent term is unlawful per se.\u00a0 Kimble\u2019s patent claimed a toy glove for shooting string foam. Kimble entered into a license agreement with Marvel for 3% of net product sales. In a subsequent dispute, the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit upheld a district court finding that the royalty obligation ended when the patent expired.\u00a0 To read the question presented as posted on the Supreme Court website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/qp\/13-00720qp.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON INDUCED PATENT INFRINGEMENT  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON INDUCED PATENT INFRINGEMENT AND POST-EXPIRATION PATENT ROYALTIES - 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