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High Court's Patent Guidance On Exporting Component Parts

By Clifford Ragsdale Lamar (February 27, 2017, 12:06 PM EST) -- In yet another reversal of the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court last week held that liability under § 271(f)(1) of the Patent Act requires more than one component part of a multicomponent patented invention to be shipped abroad for assembly, no matter how important or critical that one component may be. Life Techs. Corp. v. Promega Corp., 580 U.S. ___, slip opinion at *8 (U.S. Feb. 22, 2017) (No. 14-1538)....

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