{"id":4448,"date":"2011-09-20T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:25:26","slug":"oral-argument-date-for-akamai-tech-v-limelight-networks-and-mckesson-tech-v-epic-systems-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4448","title":{"rendered":"Oral Argument Date for Akamai Tech. v. Limelight Networks and McKesson Tech. v. Epic Systems Corp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The date has been set for the <em>en banc<\/em> oral arguments of two divided infringement patent cases, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Akamai Tech. v. Limelight Networks<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">McKesson Tech. v. Epic Systems Corp<\/span>.\u00a0 The date will be Friday\u00a0November 18, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0issue that the parties were asked to brief in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Akamai Tech. v. Limelight Networks<\/span> case is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em>1.\u00a0 If separate entities each perform separate steps of a method claim, under what circumstances would that claim be directly infringed and to what extent would each of the parties be liable<\/em>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The issues that the parties were asked to brief in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">McKesson Tech. v. Epic\u00a0Systems Corp.<\/span>\u00a0case are:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"CAFCOpinionBody\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Schoolbook;\"><em>1. If separate entities each perform separate steps of a method claim, under what circumstances, if any, would either entity or any third party be liable for inducing infringement or for contributory in-fringement? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fromson v. Advance Offset Plate, Inc.<\/span>, 720 F.2d 1565 (Fed. Cir. 1983). <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em>2. Does the nature of the relationship between the relevant actors\u2014e.g., service provider\/user; doctor\/patient\u2014affect the question of direct or indirect infringement liability?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date has been set for the en banc oral arguments of two divided infringement patent cases, Akamai Tech. v. Limelight Networks and McKesson Tech. v. Epic Systems Corp.\u00a0 The date will be Friday\u00a0November 18, 2011. The\u00a0issue that the parties were asked to brief in the Akamai Tech. v. Limelight Networks case is: 1.\u00a0 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}