Key Recent U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Court Decisions That Impact Patent Law

This webinar covers developments in false patent marking cases, including heightened pleading requirements, challenges to the constitutionality of the law, and pending Congressional reform. Other topics include the Supreme Court ruling in i4i v. Microsoft regarding the evidentiary standard for proof of invalidity; the Supreme Court decision, Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., which considered whether a party who actively induces infringement must know that the induced acts constitute patent infringement; and the Federal Circuit Court decision in Therasense v. Becton Dickinson on the new standard of proof for inequitable conduct as well as an analysis of the future of unenforceability claims.