Cases in which more than one party is involved in infringing a patent embody one of the
most vexing areas of patent law. These multi-party problems become particularly salient …

Scholars and lawmakers routinely refer to copyright infringement as a strict liability tort. The
strictness of copyright liability has long been criticized as immoral, inefficient, and …

The balance of power between the administrative state and the federal courts as guardians
of the US innovation system is in significant transition. Amid growing dissatisfaction with the …

In 1999, a Canadian company, Research in Motion (RIM), launched the Blackberry e-mail
pager.'The pager was an instant commercial success amongst businesspeople and …

Patents are intended to strike a delicate balance-to encourage innovation by rewarding past
invention without unduly hindering future progress. 1 In order to achieve this balance, patent …

The now-conventional account of patent law holds that infringement is a strict liability
offense, meaning that intent is not an element of an infringement claim. This account …

Just as the antitrust system seeks to penalize anticompetitive conduct while leaving
procompetitive conduct alone, the patent system seeks to deny patents to inventions that are …

In July 2014, international pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sued the generics
company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Teva) for induced infringement of patents related to the …

Traditionally, courts categorize patent infringement liability into direct and indirect
infringement. The parties who make, use, offer to sell, or sell patented inventions without …

Trade secret law places more scrutiny on a party's intent-what it was thinking, what it
considered, or what it should have considered-than other categories of intellectual property …