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LIMELIGHT NETWORKS v. AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES

No. 12-786.

134 S.Ct. 2111 (2014)

189 L.Ed.2d 52

LIMELIGHT NETWORKS, INC., Petitioner, v. AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron M. Panner, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Ginger D. Anders, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner.

Seth P. Waxman, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

Alexander F. MacKinnon, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Dion Messer, General Counsel-Intellectual Property, Limelight Networks, Inc., Tempe, AZ, Aaron M. Panner, Counsel of Record, John Christopher Rozendaal, Gregory G. Rapawy, Michael E. Joffre, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Donald R. Dunner, Kara F. Stoll, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, Washington, DC, Seth P. Waxman, Counsel of Record, Thomas G. Saunders, Thomas G. Sprankling, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Jennifer S. Swan, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, Palo Alto, CA, David H. Judson, Law Office of David H. Judson, Dallas, TX, Mark C. Fleming, Lauren B. Fletcher, Brook Hopkins, Eric F. Fletcher, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, Robert S. Frank, Jr., Carlos Perez-Albuerne, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, Boston, MA, for Respondents.

Justice ALITO delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether a defendant may be liable for inducing infringement of a patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) when no one has directly infringed the patent under § 271(a) or any other statutory provision. The statutory text and structure and our prior case law require that we answer this question in the negative. We accordingly reverse the Federal Circuit, which reached the opposite conclusion...

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