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Article: Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp.:The United States Supreme Court Reins in the Extraterritorial Effects of United States Patent Law.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 9, 2007
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The increasing globalization of commerce has created tension with the United States patent laws, which in general have an effect only within the borders of the United States. As a result, the courts have faced more and more cases where the United States patent laws-in particular, 35 U.S.C. s. 271(f), which deals with situations where components are created in the United States and then shipped abroad for combination-are being asserted against acts that take place partially or wholly outside the United States.
In 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a series of cases involving the extraterritorial effects of the U.S. patent ...