Microsoft

A important case has reached the U.S. Supreme Court that on the surface could expose high-tech businesses to greater liability for patent infringement in regard to certain merchandise assembled and sold overseas. Even so, based on the tenor of the comments and queries by a majority of the Justices of the Court in the course of oral arguments, it seems that there will be no key shift in policy in regard to patent infringement when a product is assembled and sold off the shores of the United States.