Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said he will not participate in a patent infringement case because he owns stock in the parent company of one of the parties.
Roberts was a vocal participant in oral arguments for Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. in December before realizing that he owned stock in Thermo Fisher Scientific, which owns Life Technologies.
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