U.S. Supreme Court Hears Patent Dispute Over Multicomponent Inventions

(December 6, 2016, 3:24 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A jury award of $52 million in lost profits was premised on an erroneous instruction that worldwide sales can be considered even when the product in question only contains a single “staple article” manufactured domestically, an attorney for patent infringement defendant Life Technologies Corp. told the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 6 (Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., No. 14-1538, U.S. Sup.)....