PLAINTIFF: AT&T CORP.
V/S
DEFENDANTS: MICROSOFT CORP.
This report contains the:
1. Overview
2. Background
3. Conclusions by law
4. Implications
5. Order for judgment
I. OVERVIEW
Microsoft v. AT&T, 550 U.S. 437 (2007), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court reversed a previous decision by the Federal Circuit and ruled in favour of Microsoft, holding that Microsoft was not liable for infringement on AT&T's patent under 35 U.S.C. In this case, Microsoft exported abroad the “master version” of its Windows software disk, which incorporated a speech processing function claimed by one of AT&T’s patents, with the intent that such software be copied abroad for installation onto foreign-manufactured computers. According
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Microsoft Corporation and held that software code alone qualifies as an invention eligible for patenting. Since statutory language does not limit § 271(f) to patented ‘machines’ or ‘physical structures,’ software can very well be a ‘component’ of patented invention under § 271(f)”.The Federal Circuit also explained that the act of “copying” is subsumed in the act of “supplying”. Therefore the exportation of the master disk, with the specific intent to be replicated abroad, was an act considered as “supplied or caused to be supplied from the United States within the meaning of § 271(f).However, Federal Circuit Judge Randall R. Rader objected to the view that “supplies” includes the act of foreign “copying”. Judge Rader expressed concerns that such an interpretation was an impermissible “extraterritorial expansion” of U.S. patent law because it reached copying activity overseas. In his view, AT&T’s remedy lied not in U.S. law, but rather the law of the foreign country in which the infringement due to copying …show more content…
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