Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps 126
reebmmm writes "In a much anticipated patent law case, an en banc panel of the Federal Circuit overturned existing law and came out in favor a new rule for indirect infringement: you can still be liable for infringing even if no single person does all the infringement. This case consolidated two different cases involving internet patents. In McKesson v. Epic, a lower court found that Epic did not infringe a patent about a patient portal because one of the steps was performed by the patient accessing the portal. In Akamai v. Limelight, the lower court found that Limelight did not infringe because its customers, not the company itself, tagged content. This is likely headed for the Supreme Court."
Re:Patent infringement (Score:4, Informative)
Maybe you should look into the difference between copyright and patents before you start pushing too hard.
They don't have much in common except that they both go under the dubious umbrella of "intellectual property".