USA: Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, No. 13-896, 26 May 2015
An accused party’s belief in the invalidity of a patent is not a defense to a claim that the party induced infringement of the patent, the U.S. Supreme Court has held. In a dispute between Commil USA and accused infringer Cisco Systems, the Court reversed a holding of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…