The Supreme Court continued its recent and unprecedented attention to patent law by issuing two more important decisions on June 2, 2014. Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments, 572 U.S. ___, No. 13-369 (June 2, 2014), reviewed the level of clarity required to define the scope of claimed inventions, and Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies, 572 U.S. ___, No. 12-786 (June 2, 2014), determined whether parties can be liable for inducing patent infringement if they perform some limitations of a patent claim while specifically encouraging others to perform the remaining limitations.
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