Overlooked Problems With Induced Infringement

Law360, New York (July 11, 2014, 10:09 AM EDT) -- The focus of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Limelight Networks Inc. v. Akamai Technologies Inc. has been on divided infringement, but there is another lesson from the case that might have a greater impact for practioners: the Supreme Court's refusal to expand the doctrine of induced infringement to cover all perceived bad acts. Although the Supreme Court may have stopped the expansion of induced infringement, it did not provide any guidance on the addressing the problems with induced infringement. Discussed below are the ways the courts have expanded induced infringement and some of the other problems induced infringement raises....

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