The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a damages verdict because the acts supporting the induced infringement finding took place years before the statutory damages.
U.S. patent law grants patent owners the right to grant licenses to their patents in analogy to landlords granting rents to real property as a license to use without obtaining.
Federal Circuit in Roche Diagnostics Corporation v. Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC vacated a damages verdict finding infringement took place years before the statutory damages period and thus could not support a finding of specific intent to induce infringement.