Monday, June 23, 2014

U.S. Supreme Court rulings may make life harder for patent trolls (at last...)

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned two lower court patent decisions, one related to heart rate monitors and the other to management of Web images, in rulings that could make it harder for so-called patent trolls to win infringement cases.

The Supreme Court also ruled in favor of Limelight Networks Inc over claims by Akamai Technologies Inc that it infringed patented technology for managing Web images and video. The decision overturned an appeals court decision that had made it easier to prove that a company is liable based on the induced infringement theory.





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