US Supreme Court holds that supply of a single component of a multicomponent invention for manufacture abroad is not patent infringement under 35 USC § 271(f)(1)

Life Technologies Corp. v Promega Corp., No. 14-1538, 2017 US LEXIS 1428, 580 US (2017), US Supreme Court, 22 February 2017 Legal context The issue before the Supreme Court in Life Technologies Corp. vPromega Corp. was ‘whether the supply of a single component of a multicomponent invention is an infringing act under 35 U.S.C. §271(f)(1)’ (ibid, at 4) […]