Oral arguments heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at Fordham Law were featured in Law 360.
A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday examined the reach of its recent decision that made it easier to prove that multiple parties have jointly infringed a patent, with the judges appearing skeptical that the ruling applied to a case involving luggage locks that airport security workers can open.
At arguments held at Fordham University School of Law in New York, the panel probed whether a lower court correctly held that lockmaker Travel Sentry Inc. and luggage companies like Samsonite Corp. do not have a close enough relationship with the Transportation Security Administration to say that they worked together to jointly infringe a rival company’s lock pate