Supreme Court Invokes Common Law Principles in Largely Pro-Patent Decision: Good-Faith Belief of Invalidity Is Not a Defense to Induced Patent Infringement
The Supreme Court decided today in Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. that an accused infringer’s good-faith belief that a patent is invalid, standing alone, is not a defense to induced infringement. As discussed in greater detail in our earlier post, the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling that prohibited Cisco from presenting […]