The Patent Indirect Infringement Case Studies Of U.S. Software Related Fields

With the advancement of the technology, patent infringementgradually becomes more subtle. The actors tend to avoid the principle ofuniversal coverage, for not infringing the patent rights of others. As theworld’s largest economies and the first patent big country, the UnitedStates gradually established a system of indirect infringement from ajurisprudence of1871, and its patent standards and principles of indirectinfringement impacting other countries deeply. This paper is divided intothree parts an introduction, a body and a conclusion.As described in the introduction, as the development of the patentsystem, patent infringement means becoming more subtle, and describesthe background and purpose of this paper.The body is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introducesthe concept, constitutes of indirect patent infringement, the comparison ofdirect patent infringement and indirect infringement, joint patentinfringement and indirect patent infringement. Theoretical problem is thebasis of case studies, so it is necessary to clarify the concepts before caseanalysis. The second chapter, this chapter describes four major U.S. software patent infringement cases, which occurred in recent years. Thethird chapter is the further extended analysis of the four cases, whichwere identified leads on four criteria established indirect infringement.The fourth chapter is some inspiration of four cases.In the conclusion, a brief summary is given about this article.