Supreme Court: Good-Faith Belief in Patent Invalidity is No Defense to Induced Infringement Claim | Practical Law
In Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., a divided US Supreme Court vacated and remanded a decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and held that a defendant's good-faith belief that an asserted patent is invalid is not a defense to an induced infringement claim under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b).