Akamai Is A Cautionary Tale For Patent Prosecutors

Law360, New York (May 14, 2015, 5:04 PM EDT) -- On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit held on May 13, 2015, in Akamai Technologies Inc. et al. v. Limelight Networks Inc., that Limelight did not directly infringe under § 271(a). The majority (Judges Sharon Prost and Richard Linn) reached that conclusion because Limelight did not perform all of the steps of any method claim and because there was no basis to attribute performance of all steps to it....

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