Location: Ono Auditorium

Topic: Indirect Patent Infringement

Speaker: Prof. Jacob S. Sherkow (Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Illinouis)

Languages: English & Japanese

Jake Sherkow (University of Illinois College of Law) delivered a lecture introducing the fundamentals of indirect patent infringement under U.S. law, with a focus on inducement doctrine under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b). Drawing on recent litigation and scholarship — including the “infringement by label” debate highlighted in the Supreme Court case Hikma v. Amarin — the talk critically examined how US case law risked expanding inducement liability beyond its traditional requirement of active encouragement and causation. Two distinguished patent practitioners, Tsuyoshi Sueyoshi (Yuasa Hara) and Jan Krauss (SKM-IP) supplemented the discussion by drawing comparisons with the legal situation in Japan and the EU.