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<br /> Ipls Proceedings<br /> State Bar of Michigan<br /> Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2017<br /> In ThIs Issue<br /> 2016-2017 Supreme Court Intellectual<br /> Property Review ............................... 1<br /> View from the Chair ................................ 2<br /> In Helsinn Healthcare, the Federal<br /> Circuit Offers Guidance on the<br /> On-Sale Bar under the AIA ............. 14<br /> The Great Divide – Sorting Out Method<br /> Claims and Multiple Actors ............. 16<br /> 2016-2017 Supreme Court Intellectual<br /> Property Review<br /> By Christopher C. Smith and David C. Berry<br /> The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2016 term was a blockbuster term for<br /> intellectual property issues. The Court decided five patent-related cases, as well as<br /> important copyright and trademark cases. The following is a concise review of the<br /> Court’s IP decisions:<br /> Patent: Court Restricts Venue in Pa<a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=1"> Ipls Proceedings State Bar of Mi</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=2"> View from the Chair The culmination of</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=3"> 2016-2017 Supreme Court ... Continued from page 1</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=4"> corporation defendants, the TC Heartland decision</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=5"> Second, the Court held that exhaustion applie</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=6"> a patent infringement action, “[e]xcept as otherw</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=7"> cumstances a single “main” component constitutes </a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=8"> Design Patent: Court Limits Damages, Vacates Appl</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=9"> lar patented technology found to infringe. Althou</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=10"> In addition, Justice Alito noted a lack o</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=11"> Practical Si</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=12"> The Court ruled that, under the Act, a pic</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=13"> pause to companies considering design patent prot</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=14"> In Helsinn Healthcare, the Federal Circuit Offers</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=15"> filed).  However, the court quoted floor statemen</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=16"> The Great Divide – Sorting Out Method Claims and </a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=17"> • the availability of Limelight customer servic</a> <a title="IPLS Proceedings Vol.28 No. 2 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/6f668b68?page=18"> Dispelling uncertainty Prudent patent applic</a>