WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that a defendant is not liable for inducing infringement of a patent when no one has “directly infringed” the patent.

In its June 2 opinion, the nation’s high court reversed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the federal court charged with handling all U.S. patent appeals. The Federal Circuit had found Limelight Networks Inc. infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703.

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