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Infringing Software Hosted From a Foreign Web Site May Infringe a U.S. Patemt

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Lexology, May 30, 2008.

Infringing software hosted from a foreign web site may infringe a US patent
Ice Miller LLP
"In a recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Renhcol, Inc. v. Don Best Sports, et al., Judge Davis decided that patent claims directed to a 'computer' and a 'computer storage media' programmed to perform specific functions could be directly infringed in the United States under 35 U.S.C. §271(a) by foreign defendants even though the defendants and their computers and the computer storage media were located totally outside the United States."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).