U.S. supreme court sticks to the strict meaning of patent infringement
7 June 2014 by Steve Blum
akamai, geek stuff, innovation, limelight, patent infringement, patent troll, public policy, scotus
akamai, geek stuff, innovation, limelight, patent infringement, patent troll, public policy, scotus
There’s good news in the U.S. supreme court’s unanimous decision this week to toss out a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Akamai against a competing content delivery network, Limelight.
The court declined to open a vast new frontier for patent troll claims. Akamai, of course, isn’t a troll – it uses its patented technology to good effect – but it was trying to make the case that a partial (and thus, under law, allowable) duplication of a method it developed was actually an infringement because Limelight told customers how to complete the missing steps themselves.… More