The Supreme Court held that a patent owner can recover lost foreign profits flowing from a domestic act of infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2).
The Supreme Court holds that exporting the unassembled parts of a patented machine for assembly abroad is not 'making' the invention—prompting Congress to rewrite the statute a decade later.
The Supreme Court holds that supplying a single commodity component from the United States cannot trigger §271(f)(1) liability, reading 'substantial portion' as a quantitative measure.
The Supreme Court holds that supplying a master disk of software from the United States, then copying it abroad, does not 'supply' the patented invention's components under §271(f).
