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Asserting Foreign Patent Claims In U.S. Federal Courts: What’S Left After Voda V. Cordis?, Eric D. Chan
Asserting Foreign Patent Claims In U.S. Federal Courts: What’S Left After Voda V. Cordis?, Eric D. Chan
Eric David Chan
Patent law is inherently territorial; a patent covers infringing activity only within the borders of the nation in which it should granted. However, this makes enforcing patent rights worldwide a daunting challenge. Rather than recklessly extending the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patent law, a better alternative would be to assert claims for infringement of multiple foreign patents in a single, U.S. forum.
This paper focuses on the new barriers raised to the prospects for such consolidated, multinational patent infringement proceedings by Voda v. Cordis, decided by the Federal Circuit in February. Voda held that federal supplemental jurisdiction should almost never …