Lectures & Articles

Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A.: Importing criminal law into patent infringement

Vanessa Perez-Ramos

Relying on the well-established criminal law doctrine of “willful blindness,” the Court in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A., 563 U.S. _____ (2011), affirmed CAFC’s ruling that Global-Tech was liable for induced patent infringement of SEB’s deep fryer patents under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b).

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