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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Official - Subject to Final Review IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES -----------------x LIFE TECHNOLOGIES : CORPORATION, ET AL., : Petitioners : No. 14-1538 v. : PROMEGA CORPORATION, : Respondent. : -----------------x Washington, D.C. Tuesday, December 6, 2016 The above-entitled matter came on for oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States at 10:15 a.m. APPEARANCES: CARTER G. PHILLIPS, ESQ., Washington, D.C.; on behalf of the Petitioners. ZACHARY D. TRIPP, ESQ., Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for United States, as amicus curiae, supporting the Petitioners. SETH P. WAXMAN, ESQ., Washington, D.C.; on behalf of the Respondent. Alderson Reporting Company

Official -Subject to Final Review - Patently-OMR. PHILLIPS: Taq polymerase? JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Yes. MR. PHILLIPS: Absolutely. Yes. It's --it's readily available throughout the world

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Page 1: Official -Subject to Final Review - Patently-OMR. PHILLIPS: Taq polymerase? JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Yes. MR. PHILLIPS: Absolutely. Yes. It's --it's readily available throughout the world

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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LIFE TECHNOLOGIES

CORPORATION ET AL

Petitioners No 14-1538

v

PROMEGA CORPORATION

Respondent

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Washington DC

Tuesday December 6 2016

The above-entitled matter came on for oral

argument before the Supreme Court of the United States

at 1015 am

APPEARANCES

CARTER G PHILLIPS ESQ Washington DC on behalf of

the Petitioners

ZACHARY D TRIPP ESQ Assistant to the Solicitor

General Department of Justice Washington DC for

United States as amicus curiae supporting the

Petitioners

SETH P WAXMAN ESQ Washington DC on behalf of the

Respondent

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C O N T E N T S

ORAL ARGUMENT OF PAGE

CARTER G PHILLIPS ESQ

On behalf of the Petitioners 3

ORAL ARGUMENT OF

ZACHARY D TRIPP ESQ

For United States as amicus curiae

supporting the Petitioners 18

ORAL ARGUMENT OF

SETH P WAXMAN ESQ

On behalf of the Respondent 29

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF

CARTER G PHILLIPS ESQ

On behalf of the Petitioners 52

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P R O C E E D I N G S

(1015 am)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well hear argument

this morning in Case 14-1538 Life Technologies

Corporation v Promega Corporation

Mr Phillips

ORAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think because this is largely an

international trade case its probably useful to put

this case in context and to compare it to the facts that

gave rise to the passage of Section 271(f) thats at

issue in this case Youll recall that in the Deepsouth

case that was a case involving a shrimp deveiner in

which all of the activities took place within the United

States except for the final act that took less than an

hour to assemble in a foreign country In that case

this Court held even that was not within the meaning of

the -- of the patent statute as it existed then and

Congress then acted to fill that particular loophole

The facts of this case seem to me to be the

polar opposite of that With -- Life Tech has -- Life

Technologies operates an -- an enormous plant in

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England in the United Kingdom It spends tens of

million dollars on that plant Four out of the five

components that go into the creation of the kits that

are at issue in this case are sourced outside of the

United States one inside Ill come back to that in a

minute And as relevant to this litigation all of the

kit -- kits are sold outside of the United States

So the only contact that any of this has

with the United States is the fact that a single

commodity product is shipped to England as part of the

process for the fabrication of these particular kits

Now that commodity product is called a Taq

polymerase which I will readily concede that when I

think about what you buy off-the-shelf I dont go to

Costco to buy Taq polymerase but Im told and I think

its absolutely undisputed in the record that this is a

commodity This is at the essence of what the Congress

enacted in (f)(2) which is a staple article or

commodity of commerce suitable for many non-infringing

uses And indeed if you get online and put in Taq

polymerase you can find literally dozens and dozens of

ways to purchase it online at this time And that was

true as much in 2006 It may have been a significant

product in 1989 but clearly by 2006 it was a

commodity

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And so the question is is whether or not

simply by using a single staple article Congress

intended through 271 to -- to declare that this is --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Could you tell us --

MR PHILLIPS -- a violation

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- is this product

available outside the US

MR PHILLIPS Taq polymerase

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Yes

MR PHILLIPS Absolutely Yes Its --

its readily available throughout the world through --

there are a variety of manufacturers who wish to make --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Theres no patent on

that particular component

MR PHILLIPS No none that -- none that

exists any longer no As I said its a commodity

product The --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Do we know why that

particular component was exported from the United

States You -- you said all the others --

MR PHILLIPS Right

JUSTICE GINSBURG -- were made in England

MR PHILLIPS Yeah and the key to this is

you want -- you want to get the best quality product

at -- presumably at the lowest possible price And --

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

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the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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CARTER G PHILLIPS ESQ

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ORAL ARGUMENT OF

ZACHARY D TRIPP ESQ

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supporting the Petitioners 18

ORAL ARGUMENT OF

SETH P WAXMAN ESQ

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REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF

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P R O C E E D I N G S

(1015 am)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well hear argument

this morning in Case 14-1538 Life Technologies

Corporation v Promega Corporation

Mr Phillips

ORAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think because this is largely an

international trade case its probably useful to put

this case in context and to compare it to the facts that

gave rise to the passage of Section 271(f) thats at

issue in this case Youll recall that in the Deepsouth

case that was a case involving a shrimp deveiner in

which all of the activities took place within the United

States except for the final act that took less than an

hour to assemble in a foreign country In that case

this Court held even that was not within the meaning of

the -- of the patent statute as it existed then and

Congress then acted to fill that particular loophole

The facts of this case seem to me to be the

polar opposite of that With -- Life Tech has -- Life

Technologies operates an -- an enormous plant in

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England in the United Kingdom It spends tens of

million dollars on that plant Four out of the five

components that go into the creation of the kits that

are at issue in this case are sourced outside of the

United States one inside Ill come back to that in a

minute And as relevant to this litigation all of the

kit -- kits are sold outside of the United States

So the only contact that any of this has

with the United States is the fact that a single

commodity product is shipped to England as part of the

process for the fabrication of these particular kits

Now that commodity product is called a Taq

polymerase which I will readily concede that when I

think about what you buy off-the-shelf I dont go to

Costco to buy Taq polymerase but Im told and I think

its absolutely undisputed in the record that this is a

commodity This is at the essence of what the Congress

enacted in (f)(2) which is a staple article or

commodity of commerce suitable for many non-infringing

uses And indeed if you get online and put in Taq

polymerase you can find literally dozens and dozens of

ways to purchase it online at this time And that was

true as much in 2006 It may have been a significant

product in 1989 but clearly by 2006 it was a

commodity

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And so the question is is whether or not

simply by using a single staple article Congress

intended through 271 to -- to declare that this is --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Could you tell us --

MR PHILLIPS -- a violation

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- is this product

available outside the US

MR PHILLIPS Taq polymerase

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Yes

MR PHILLIPS Absolutely Yes Its --

its readily available throughout the world through --

there are a variety of manufacturers who wish to make --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Theres no patent on

that particular component

MR PHILLIPS No none that -- none that

exists any longer no As I said its a commodity

product The --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Do we know why that

particular component was exported from the United

States You -- you said all the others --

MR PHILLIPS Right

JUSTICE GINSBURG -- were made in England

MR PHILLIPS Yeah and the key to this is

you want -- you want to get the best quality product

at -- presumably at the lowest possible price And --

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

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stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

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the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well hear argument

this morning in Case 14-1538 Life Technologies

Corporation v Promega Corporation

Mr Phillips

ORAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think because this is largely an

international trade case its probably useful to put

this case in context and to compare it to the facts that

gave rise to the passage of Section 271(f) thats at

issue in this case Youll recall that in the Deepsouth

case that was a case involving a shrimp deveiner in

which all of the activities took place within the United

States except for the final act that took less than an

hour to assemble in a foreign country In that case

this Court held even that was not within the meaning of

the -- of the patent statute as it existed then and

Congress then acted to fill that particular loophole

The facts of this case seem to me to be the

polar opposite of that With -- Life Tech has -- Life

Technologies operates an -- an enormous plant in

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England in the United Kingdom It spends tens of

million dollars on that plant Four out of the five

components that go into the creation of the kits that

are at issue in this case are sourced outside of the

United States one inside Ill come back to that in a

minute And as relevant to this litigation all of the

kit -- kits are sold outside of the United States

So the only contact that any of this has

with the United States is the fact that a single

commodity product is shipped to England as part of the

process for the fabrication of these particular kits

Now that commodity product is called a Taq

polymerase which I will readily concede that when I

think about what you buy off-the-shelf I dont go to

Costco to buy Taq polymerase but Im told and I think

its absolutely undisputed in the record that this is a

commodity This is at the essence of what the Congress

enacted in (f)(2) which is a staple article or

commodity of commerce suitable for many non-infringing

uses And indeed if you get online and put in Taq

polymerase you can find literally dozens and dozens of

ways to purchase it online at this time And that was

true as much in 2006 It may have been a significant

product in 1989 but clearly by 2006 it was a

commodity

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And so the question is is whether or not

simply by using a single staple article Congress

intended through 271 to -- to declare that this is --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Could you tell us --

MR PHILLIPS -- a violation

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- is this product

available outside the US

MR PHILLIPS Taq polymerase

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Yes

MR PHILLIPS Absolutely Yes Its --

its readily available throughout the world through --

there are a variety of manufacturers who wish to make --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Theres no patent on

that particular component

MR PHILLIPS No none that -- none that

exists any longer no As I said its a commodity

product The --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Do we know why that

particular component was exported from the United

States You -- you said all the others --

MR PHILLIPS Right

JUSTICE GINSBURG -- were made in England

MR PHILLIPS Yeah and the key to this is

you want -- you want to get the best quality product

at -- presumably at the lowest possible price And --

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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England in the United Kingdom It spends tens of

million dollars on that plant Four out of the five

components that go into the creation of the kits that

are at issue in this case are sourced outside of the

United States one inside Ill come back to that in a

minute And as relevant to this litigation all of the

kit -- kits are sold outside of the United States

So the only contact that any of this has

with the United States is the fact that a single

commodity product is shipped to England as part of the

process for the fabrication of these particular kits

Now that commodity product is called a Taq

polymerase which I will readily concede that when I

think about what you buy off-the-shelf I dont go to

Costco to buy Taq polymerase but Im told and I think

its absolutely undisputed in the record that this is a

commodity This is at the essence of what the Congress

enacted in (f)(2) which is a staple article or

commodity of commerce suitable for many non-infringing

uses And indeed if you get online and put in Taq

polymerase you can find literally dozens and dozens of

ways to purchase it online at this time And that was

true as much in 2006 It may have been a significant

product in 1989 but clearly by 2006 it was a

commodity

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And so the question is is whether or not

simply by using a single staple article Congress

intended through 271 to -- to declare that this is --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Could you tell us --

MR PHILLIPS -- a violation

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- is this product

available outside the US

MR PHILLIPS Taq polymerase

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Yes

MR PHILLIPS Absolutely Yes Its --

its readily available throughout the world through --

there are a variety of manufacturers who wish to make --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Theres no patent on

that particular component

MR PHILLIPS No none that -- none that

exists any longer no As I said its a commodity

product The --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Do we know why that

particular component was exported from the United

States You -- you said all the others --

MR PHILLIPS Right

JUSTICE GINSBURG -- were made in England

MR PHILLIPS Yeah and the key to this is

you want -- you want to get the best quality product

at -- presumably at the lowest possible price And --

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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And so the question is is whether or not

simply by using a single staple article Congress

intended through 271 to -- to declare that this is --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Could you tell us --

MR PHILLIPS -- a violation

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- is this product

available outside the US

MR PHILLIPS Taq polymerase

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Yes

MR PHILLIPS Absolutely Yes Its --

its readily available throughout the world through --

there are a variety of manufacturers who wish to make --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Theres no patent on

that particular component

MR PHILLIPS No none that -- none that

exists any longer no As I said its a commodity

product The --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Do we know why that

particular component was exported from the United

States You -- you said all the others --

MR PHILLIPS Right

JUSTICE GINSBURG -- were made in England

MR PHILLIPS Yeah and the key to this is

you want -- you want to get the best quality product

at -- presumably at the lowest possible price And --

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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and most of these were purchased -- most of the Taq was

purchased from the Roche company and I -- and I suspect

they just had a better supply arrangement

I mean thats -- thats the key to this

case in a lot of ways is what youre looking for is

what are the best supply arrangements that you can make

on a global basis Can you get them in the United

States Can you get them outside the United States

And what it seems to me clear that Congress could never

have intended was to in some way disadvantage US

manufacturers who are providing a particular staple

Indeed I would read 271(f)(2) as saying

categorically that the one thing Congress did not want

to do is to interfere with the ability to -- of a

manufacturer to provide a staple article as part of

the -- as part of an activity outside of the United

States

JUSTICE KENNEDY If all of this had

happened in the United States would there have been a

patent infringement suit that would be -- have merit

MR PHILLIPS Yes if everything had

take -- taken place inside the United States there

would have been

JUSTICE KENNEDY Under the UK laws are

patents generally enforced for items that are patentable

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

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US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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in the UK

MR PHILLIPS Yes Yes absolutely

And -- and -- and indeed in this case Promega had --

I think Promega -- at least somebody had a patent in the

UK but that patent had expired which is candidly

not surprisingly why the activity was taken

And that -- and that is ultimately Justice

Kennedy the answer to these issues If a patentholder

in the United States is upset by the use of a particular

invention outside the United States the solution is to

go outside of the United States and seek packet -- pack

-- patent protection in that particular country

JUSTICE KENNEDY I assume though that

there might be other countries that are not so vigorous

in their enforcements as the UK

MR PHILLIPS Well I suspect that there

may be although there -- you know this isnt broadly

regulated by -- by treaties And the -- and to me the

key is you know right -- you know the United States

has agreed that each country should regulate its own

patent rights I mean were bought into that deal

in -- in the Paris Convention in the 19th century

and -- and consistently have accepted that And

thats -- and the whole theory of this is to ensure the

free flow of commerce across borders on a regular basis

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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at least when were talking about staple articles of

commerce

You know if -- if -- you know where the

Federal Circuit clearly got this wrong is in saying that

you could interpret (f)(1) which talks about a -- a

substantial portion of the commodities and say that a

single commodity can be a substantial portion when

(f)(2) says that in order for a single commodity to

constitute a -- to give rise to a potential claim of a

violation what it has to be is especially made or

especially adapted for use in the particular invention

JUSTICE ALITO Does substantial portion

mean a majority

MR PHILLIPS Oh I think it means

substantially more than a majority I -- I would -- I

would say that it has to be approximating or very close

or tantamount to all

JUSTICE ALITO So here there were five

components

MR PHILLIPS Yes Your Honor

JUSTICE ALITO And -- and they would have

to be -- all -- all five would have to be made in the

United States Or --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- I would -- at

minimum --

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

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the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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JUSTICE ALITO -- four would be enough

MR PHILLIPS I would have thought at least

four would have to be But I -- I -- you know in many

instances my guess is the right answer may well be

five

JUSTICE KAGAN Where -- where do you get

that from Whats the principle there

MR PHILLIPS Because all Congress wanted

to do was to close a loophole where youre essentially

doing nothing but violating US patent law and avoiding

it by simply offloading it at the last second In a lot

of instances I dont think thats true when youre only

talking about a majority of -- of the -- the items

JUSTICE KAGAN Well how do we know that

thats all Congress wanted to do I mean that might

have been the -- the -- the scenario in Deepsouth but

Congress used language that could refer to much more

than that that could refer to a majority that even

could refer to a substantial minority

MR PHILLIPS Yeah I -- I -- I think

there is no way to -- to -- first of all the -- the

rule against extra -- the rule -- the presumption

against extraterritoriality would drive you in the

opposite direction Even if you could reasonably read

the language either way you would -- you would drive it

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

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the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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toward recognizing that the company that the substantial

portion keeps is the word all and its talking about

components

And so those are to my mind very much

quantitative and driven in the direction of all I --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And so you agree that

substantial portion is an ambiguous term

MR PHILLIPS Yes Justice Ginsburg I --

I agree It could be interpreted in either of two ways

which is why I think the principle against

extraterritoriality drives you in the direction of

saying Congress meant only to allow US patents to

operate outside the United States in very narrow

circumstances And if Congress chooses to -- to create

the kinds of international problems that will

undoubtedly arise by an overbroad interpretation of

271(f) which is what the Federal Circuit has adopted

leave it to Congress to go back and fix that because

those are -- those are issues of international relations

that it seems to me Congress is in a much better

position than the courts --

JUSTICE KENNEDY But those are --

MR PHILLIPS -- to sort out

JUSTICE KENNEDY -- just two -- two

components the polymerase and then a -- a patent --

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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the -- a second part of a patent that well envision

MR PHILLIPS Right Clearly in that

situation theres -- theres no liability because

it -- you know because only one of those components --

you know either one of two things happen Either both

of them are being put together or -- or only one of them

is and 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE KENNEDY It seems -- it seems to me

that even if we -- we agree with you that quantitative

is -- is the proper measure you still have qualitative

coming in to balance your judgment as in the case of

one out of two --

MR PHILLIPS Well I -- not in one out of

two One out of two seems to me is dictated by

271(f)(2) that says that if its only one and then it

has to be either especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY No no no --

MR PHILLIPS -- adapted or especially --

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well Im just talking

about (f)(1)

MR PHILLIPS Oh Im sorry I thought you

were talking about one out of two components I

apologize

No when you get to one -- you know theres

no question at some point as youre approaching all

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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but not all that youre going to have to make some

kinds of judgments but it seems to me its absolutely

critical that the Court maintain a very significant

numerical component to it Otherwise what you do is

allow the -- the extraterritorial principle not to have

the full sway that it should be entitled to

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Im not sure I agree

with your understanding of the extraterritorial

principle I dont -- I mean do you really take that

down into the minutiae of every little clause It seems

to me its once the law applies then you apply normal

principles of statutory interpretation I think we have

cases about that in other -- in other areas which is

sort of what is the reach I think may be the

presumption against infringements in sovereign immunity

is -- a case I cant recall right away that said well

once you get over it you know its over and then you

apply normal principles

And it -- Im not sure at every turn --

okay and we know that this is a statute that obviously

applies overseas

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Mr Chief Justice

that -- thats exactly the opposite of what the Court

said in Microsoft In Microsoft the Court said that

the issue is not simply is this extraterritorial

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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because theres no question that 271(f) operates

extraterritorially The question is the sweep of

271(f) And -- and this Court said that it was going to

interpret the word component very narrowly in that

context candidly in the same way that the -- that this

Court also interpreted it in the Deepsouth case meaning

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well --

MR PHILLIPS -- very narrowly And were

asking you to do the same thing which is to say adopt

a narrow construction of the substantial component

language so that it drives much closer to the word all

and recognizes that this is meant as a --

JUSTICE BREYER Your real argument is just

that -- isnt it -- that you interpret it differently

than you do and we cause a lot of problems in other

countries

I mean they -- they cant tell whether

when they get one component their lawyer is going to

have to know not only British law its going to have to

know American law

MR PHILLIPS Thats exactly --

JUSTICE BREYER And -- and thats a very

practical argument

MR PHILLIPS Right

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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JUSTICE BREYER And it -- really we dont

need -- well you its up to you what you want to use

But I dont -- you -- the problem is if thats the

point why do you need this sort of grand thing about --

about a -- a presumption against extraterritoriality

MR PHILLIPS Yeah --

JUSTICE BREYER Its up to you what you

want to use but --

MR PHILLIPS Yeah yeah yeah -- well

look Im -- Im perfectly comfortable with really

any -- any policy argument you feel comfortable with

That one --

(Laughter)

JUSTICE BREYER Well I --

MR PHILLIPS -- is certainly one that

we -- we embraced

I mean the other -- the other policy

argument that seems to me equally strong in this context

is the -- is the mischief that the Federal Circuits

Rule provides for trolls because now not only do you

have all of the trolls in the world looking for all of

the products in the world but now theyre going to go

through the entire supply chain of every punitive

infringer and go after each provider of a single staple

article of commerce as part of this exercise --

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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JUSTICE ALITO Do you think --

MR PHILLIPS -- and it seems to me that

cannot be possibly what Congress intended

JUSTICE ALITO Do you think its clear that

the -- that the -- the qualitative interpretation has a

greater extraterritorial effect than the quantitative

interpretation

What if you have a situation where -- lets

say there are ten components and nine of them are --

are made overseas but those are very routine things

those are like the product that was made in the United

States here You can buy them off the shelf

But theres one thats very unique Now

its not made specifically for this device but its

very -- its -- its very unique and thats -- and

thats made in the United States

MR PHILLIPS Yeah Well you know -- from

my -- it -- the only device coming from the United

States is a single device --

JUSTICE ALITO Right

MR PHILLIPS -- and its not -- and it

doesnt satisfy especially made or especially adapted

It seems to me that (f)(2) tells you specifically

thats not within the meaning of the statute

JUSTICE KAGAN Well Im not sure if thats

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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MR PHILLIPS And if Congress wants to fix

it it can fix that

JUSTICE KAGAN Im not sure if thats true

Mr Phillips I mean youre reading (f)(2) as having a

negative implication that this is the only time when

one component can create liability is when its

especially made or especially adapted But these might

be just independent clauses

In other words (f)(2) talks about a

component thats especially made whether or not its a

substantial portion of the product And then (f)(1)

comes in and says -- independently creates a rule for a

component or components that are a substantial portion

of the product

So Im not sure why we have to read (f)(2)

as creating this negative implication as to any product

any single product as opposed to just saying (f)(2) is

about specially made stuff and it has nothing to do

with (f)(1) which is not about specially made stuff

and provides a different test about substantial --

substantiality

MR PHILLIPS Right I mean in -- in the

first instance I dont -- I mean I dont think thats

the more natural way to read the two together But then

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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I would go back and -- and without trying to offend

Justice Breyer go to the principle against

extraterritoriality and say -- say to you that if there

were two different ways that are equally plausible to

interpret this language you should interpret the

language to be more narrowly applicable and therefore

less likely to interfere with extra -- with

extraterritorial -- extraterritorial application of

patent law

And so thats the reason It -- Im not

saying that you would have in the abstract been

compelled to a particular conclusion but in a situation

where Congress has used the language talking about all

or a major -- or a -- or a substantial portion where all

is all but -- you know its very close to that talks

about components of the invention not of the invention

itself the Federal Circuit twice in its opinion just

dropped out of the components of the invention where

its clear that thats designed to be a --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what are --

MR PHILLIPS -- quantitative analysis

JUSTICE GINSBURG What are the -- what are

the components of the invention How do we know what

the -- the components of the invention

MR PHILLIPS This Court in Microsoft said

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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that the components of the invention are the elements in

the claim and so you look at the claim and you

interpret the claim and you -- and you devise from that

Now that -- that -- thats claim -- thats

claim construction And thats you know not always

the easiest thing in the world to do and it requires

review of the claims review of the specification and

the -- and the history But in this particular case

its really easy

The claims say very categorically what each

of the five components are is and -- and so that one

is easy

If there are no further questions Your

Honors Id like to reserve the balance of my time

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Tripp

ORAL ARGUMENT OF ZACHARY D TRIPP

FOR UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE

SUPPORTING THE PETITIONERS

MR TRIPP Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

We are asking the Court to do two things

here today

First we are asking the Court to hold that

the supply of a single commodity component is never

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

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the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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enough We think thats clearly right when you look at

(f)(1) and (f)(2) together especially in light of

extraterritoriality concerns

Second we are asking the Court to hold that

(f)(1) reaches the supply of all or a large portion of

the components of the invention not any important

portion of the invention And the way we had put it is

that it reaches the supply of all or something

tantamount to all of the components

And our principal practical concerns here

stem from the breadth of the Federal Circuits ruling

and its broad because they are asking a loaded question

thats looking only at part of the picture

If you look only at the supplied portion of

the components and you ask whether they are important or

essential to the operation or novelty of the invention

the answer is always going to be yes In most

inventions if you take away any component it isnt

going to work and its not going to be patentable So

we think you just cant come at it that way

And then the second piece is that the

Federal Circuit isnt looking at all the components that

were not supplied and so they are not asking the

comparative question of whether the person has done

anything similar to supplying all of the components

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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And we think thats just a critical piece here This is

an anti-circumvention provision It was enacted to

shore up the basic territorial restriction against

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad and we think it

needs to be interpreted with that purpose in mind

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR You keep saying

substantially all Mr Phillips argued that

substantially all has to mean just that Almost all

You instead in your brief want us to keep

that vaguer but Im assuming that there is a minimum

that wouldnt constitute an infringement

MR TRIPP Well I think --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR 20 percent 30 percent

40 How -- how --

MR TRIPP Well so I think the -- the --

the one bright line that we -- that we are drawing here

is -- on the face of the statute is that one is never

enough We think thats clear when you look at (f)(1)

and (f)(2) together the way this Court read them in

Microsoft the first time

Beyond that the numbers are very important

under our test but they are not the whole ball game

Were -- we say this on page 26 of our brief You could

also -- you would look not only at the numbers of the

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components that were supplied and not supplied but you

would also look at the relative time money and effort

that you would need to obtain the remaining components

So if I could give --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Time -- time money

and effort but not significance of the component

MR TRIPP I think --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS It seems to me that

the significance of the component would be the most

important consideration If --

MR TRIPP I think -- and so the --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS If its the -- if

its whatever you think is not quite enough 70 percent

but 70 percent of the components -- I mean thats

really the core of what makes it work I dont know why

you wouldnt look at that differently than if its 70

percent but the 70 percent are you know fairly

insignificant

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- our principal

concern or -- as I was saying is that if you just ask

the question of whether its significant in the sense of

is it essential or important to the novelty of the

invention I think thats just a black hole thats not

going to get you anywhere And we think our approach

works better

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And if I could just give you two examples of

how this would work using this particular invention

So if some -- if -- if the record here showed that

manufacturing the first component the primer mix was

you know an incredibly difficult time-consuming hard

challenging process the bulk of the work here but that

you could get the -- the reaction buffer very quickly in

a heartbeat you know its like a dime a dozen you

drop it into the kits and it works

In that circumstance if somebody supplied

all the components except the reaction buffer we think

they would clearly be liable because they would have

done something that is really tantamount to supplying

all of the components You could get that last one so

easily but if supply -- if somebody supplied all the

components --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR To the expert testimony

here that out of the five three were significant so

lets assume they supplied the three significant

components and not the two less insignificant What --

what would your answer be then

MR TRIPP I think that would be a much

closer case to supplying something that is tantamount to

supplying all of them under our test I think the --

the record here isnt -- isnt fully set out in terms of

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what it is that -- that -- that makes them main or

major

What we are trying to get at -- and -- and

the key point to us whether exactly how you articulate

this test I think doesnt matter all that much to us

but what we really do care about is the idea that this

needs to be a comparative inquiry looking at how much

work there is left to be done to obtain the rest of the

components so that --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think once you --

once youre into your fairly complicated test I mean I

think its -- youre off to the races I mean what

factors do you look at all of that when it -- it seems

to me the -- the clear argument is whether you want to

call it the plain text or not but its just focusing on

a numerical Its -- its -- its a substantial portion

of the components and now youre saying well it kind

of depends on what components we are talking about You

know how much time it takes to make them Effort I

dont quite understand what effort means in that area

In -- in other words youre -- youre --

youre compromising the principle in a way that really

undermines the force of the principle

MR TRIPP No I -- I -- I think that what

we are saying is that the -- the statute carries the

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quantitative meeting in the sense that it needs to be a

large portion but this is an anti-circumvention

provision and then trying to figure out what it needs

for it to be a large portion the numbers are a whole

lot of the picture

I -- I dont want to -- I dont want to

diminish that but as we said on page 26 we think they

are not the entire ball game and a court look at --

could look at some qualitative factors but that it

would not look at the question of whether whats left on

the table is essential or in -- or to the novelty

because the answer to that is always going to be yes

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR I dont know enough

patent law to have the answer to this When a -- a

claim is made what -- how is the determination made of

what the elements are Do the elements determinations

sort out the common from the uncommon in a patent claim

MR TRIPP Not as I understand it no It

would just be -- it would just be sorting out what the

elements are and -- and the way we approach the

components of the invention this is on page 27 of our

brief is we think as in Microsoft that they --

they -- they are -- they need to be capable of

combination and they are derived from the elements of

the claim

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So we think in -- in most cases it actually

wont be that difficult And also as it -- you know

as I was saying I -- I think under our approach it

also frankly wouldnt matter that way

JUSTICE BREYER But why do we have to go

into the details here I mean it did strike me as an

instance where maybe the less said by us the better I

mean would you be happy if we say it means what it

says

All or substantially all means a whole

lot Or what you said tantamount to all So if you

get into that circumstance or you get into the to

circumstance which is there is a special ingredient

here that has the special qualities Mr Manufacturer

dont get close to that

MR TRIPP I -- I think --

JUSTICE BREYER All these lawyers that will

be there telling them dont get close to that and the

thing will work over time If we set a detailed test

down then all those lawyers will be trying to figure

out how in fact they actually do the thing without

quite infringing the detail test

MR TRIPP Yeah I -- I -- I think that --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats what worries me

MR TRIPP I -- I think if you said that

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one was never enough and it needs to be a whole lot we

would be quite happy All that were --

JUSTICE BREYER End of the case It says

one means a lot we need a whole lot tantamount to the

whole lot and good-bye

MR TRIPP Yeah we -- we -- we would be

perfectly happy with that

(Laughter)

MR TRIPP All -- all that Im trying to do

is try and give you our sort of best gloss on

interpreting --

JUSTICE GINSBURG Then why did you -- why

did you add the qualification to put in qualitative

considerations in addition to quantitative

MR TRIPP Well as I was trying to get at

with the -- the illustrations using this particular

invention like you could get to a different answer even

when you have the same number of components So if

somebody supplied everything but the reaction buffer

this one you would get cheaper and easily we think you

would be liable

But if they did everything except the primer

mix and thats really just an enormous amount of --

of -- of what needs to happen here then we think they

wouldnt have done something thats tantamount to

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supplying all the components And they wouldnt be

liable because there would be so much left to be done

But I think frankly --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think thats your

answer in this invention but every other invention is

going to have a different mix of the time the effort

the you know qualitative aspect and it -- again it

does seem to be that once you get beyond looking at

purely quantitatively in terms of the components I

dont think youve made much progress in clearing up

the -- the litigation costs and the confusion

And Im also not sure how it fits in with

the presumption against extraterritoriality or at least

the clear application of that

MR TRIPP Well I -- I -- I think the main

thing that we are getting at is that -- and -- and --

and again as I was saying I -- I dont think we have a

strong -- strong position on how exactly you -- you

articulate the test Our concern is that it needs to be

pinned to an anti-circumvention provision and the

question is are you doing something that is pretty

close to supplying all the components How exactly are

you --

JUSTICE KAGAN Because theres a reason why

its that almost all

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I mean if I said to you Mr Tripp a

substantial portion of my former clerks have gone into

government work how many would I mean

MR TRIPP Well I -- I think with any of

these things the interpretation of substantial depends

entirely on its context and its purpose and -- and --

and so this term is used in just like a countless

array of ways in the law

JUSTICE KAGAN So youre not pinning this

on the -- on the language here the substantial portion

means almost all

MR TRIPP Well no --

JUSTICE KAGAN You are finding it from

someplace else And where are you finding it from

MR TRIPP So were trying to give a gloss

on substantiality in light of the context and purpose of

this statue as -- as we understand all of 271(f) is

designed to shore up the basic restrictioning and is

actually making a patented invention in the United

States and then shipping it abroad Both of the

provisions get at that We think (f)(1) is situations

that resemble the Deepsouth paradigm youre --

JUSTICE KAGAN But then you take Justice

Alitos hypothetical which is a product where theres a

single product that is accounting for 90 percent of the

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time and effort and whatever the third thing you

mentioned was

MR TRIPP I think in -- in -- in the one

is never enough (f)(2) was just a complete answer to

that And if Congress was going to draft a special rule

about the supply of an individual super important

component you would have expected to see it in (f)(2)

and its just not there

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Mr Waxman

ORAL ARGUMENT OF SETH P WAXMAN

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT

MR WAXMAN Mr Chief Justice and may it

please the Court

I think its extremely important to

understand how fundamentally the Petitioners and the

government misapprehend the nature of the harm that

Congress addressed in 271 as enacted When the

Deepsouth solution was proposed by Senator Mathias it

precluded the supply with no active inducement

requirement the supply of the material components of a

combination that if combined in the United States would

infringe

In the 1984 hearing thats discussed at page

29 of our brief the United States -- the commissioner

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of patents came in and testified that the United States

objected to that interpretation They objected to the

topdown -- you know not -- not totally all and

proposed instead that Senator Mathias amend his

legislation to preclude what in essence is prohibited

domestically in 271(c) that is contributory

infringement That is the supply of a single specially

designed part where there are no substantial

non-infringing uses

That in and of itself shows you how far --

and that is in fact 271(f)(2) And that shows you how

far from this all or substantially all paradigm

Congress was aiming

Now Senator Mathiass response right

there -- and again we discuss it at page 29 -- was

okay I understand that But what about he said the

situation of the quote exporter who sends specific

instructions on how to manufacture a product which would

infringe a US patent notwithstanding the use of a

staple product or products

And Commissioner Mossinghoffs response was

gee I hadnt thought of that That would be the analog

to 271(b) That is the induced infringement requirement

which makes one liable as an infringer if you actively

induce infringement by another and --

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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Youre -- but

youre -- youre beginning with a dialogue at a Senate

hearing on the bill thats pretty weak even in the

legislative history hierarchy but I dont think youve

mentioned the actual language of the statute yet

MR WAXMAN Well that -- thank you

Mr Chief Justice And Im not relying on the

legislative history alone This is just one example

in --

JUSTICE BREYER Well how does it help you

Because I -- its very hard for me to believe that

Senator Mathias really wanted to interpret American

patent law so that it runs the world when weve entered

into a treaty which says British patent law runs

Britain French France and so forth I mean is there

something in this history which says no no Senator

Mathias had a different view he -- he wanted whenever

you send any component abroad thats in a patent

suddenly American law governs it

MR WAXMAN So Justice Breyer before I go

back to the history Ill take the Chief Justices

admonition and -- and -- and focus on the language

I mentioned the history Mr Chief Justice

only because its rare that an exchange in the

legislative history translates so directly to the

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language of the statute as a result of that exchange

which were not relying on as interpretive authority

Senator Mathias did exactly what the United States

suggested He -- he scrapped the original -- the

material components and came back with what is now

271(f)(1) and (f)(2)

(f)(1) modeled on 271(b) precludes active

inducement in the United States and 271(f)(2) precludes

following on 271(c)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Well I know But I

mean you know you know the objection I dont -- I

dont know how many of the people voting on the bill

went back and read the Senate hearing

I understand the argument when youre

talking about something in the Senate Report or the

House Report at a fairly high level of connection to the

statute But when youre wading into the particular --

the dialogues at a particular hearing in one House --

one committee of one House of the Congress thats a

real stretch

MR WAXMAN Okay Let me -- let me -- let

me put aside that exchange The -- the -- in fact the

report does acknowledge what is obvious from the face of

the statute and which I believe -- and this Court

recognized in Microsoft v ATampT which is the 271

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provisions were modeled after induced infringement under

271(b) and contributory infringement under 271(c) And

-- and --

JUSTICE ALITO What about the -- what about

the text of the -- of the statute It doesnt say a

substantial portion of the patented invention It says

a substantial portion of the components of -- of the

patented invention

So if I were to -- you know if I were to

ask what is a substantial portion of the pages of your

brief I think someone would think thats a quantitative

determination and -- and would not think that well you

know I think pages 12 to 16 of your brief are

particularly important so that would be a substantial

portion of the -- of the pages of your brief

MR WAXMAN So I -- let me go first to

the -- to the question about the use of the word

components rather than invention and then address

your -- your question on the substantial number of

pages

As this Court explained in Microsoft

v ATampT the use of the word components is the -- is

Congresss indication that the combinations that are

precluded are tangible or physical combinations not

method patents or unembodied software Thats how you

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know what the scope of the combination is

And if Congress had said you know to

export one or more rather than a substantial portion

you would still use the plural because the plural is

necessary to accommodate the instance in which it will

in fact commonly be more than one

Now in your hypothetical if youre talking

about a substantial portion of units that are

indistinguishable from each other like pages of the

brief then I concede that the more natural reading is a

quantitative one But if you look at how substantial

is used in the relevant provisions the provisions of

the patent code that my friend on the other side is

averting to that is (f)(2) where substantial

non-infringing uses is plainly at least partly

qualitative or as they say the Warner-Jenkinson the

doctrine of equivalence case where equivalency turns on

substantiality of functions and methods and uses it is

also qualitative our argument is that again we agree

with the United States whether the extent to which

substantial is qualitative or quantitative depends on

the context

And so my only point Mr Chief Justice

just so that Im not misunderstood here is Congress --

when Congress rather than what it started to do which

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was to count down -- enact something that counted down

from all the components it instead scrapped it at the

United States suggestion and started from the ground up

from contributory infringement which is just one

component specially designed and active inducement

which doesnt require the supply of any components

Now in this instance and this goes I

think to Justice Breyers question about

extraterritoriality Congress was very careful -- of

course as this Court recognized in Microsoft there are

extraterritorial implications because it concerns

exporting things for something to be done in commerce

overseas But Congress was very very careful to make

the conduct that the provision looks at domestic only

It is -- you have to actively induce from the United

States an active inducement this Court explained in the

Grokster case means active steps to encourage like

advertising or providing instructions You have to

support --

JUSTICE GINSBURG What do you do -- what do

you do with the word all I take it your argument

would be easier if that word were not in the statute

MR WAXMAN I dont -- I dont -- Im

not -- I dont -- I dont agree that our argument would

be easier All you know has the same implications one

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way or the other whether you call substantial

quantitative or qualitative Clearly Congress was

aiming at less than all

But its a commonplace for -- for

legislatures for completeness sake to say all or fewer

than all or all or some And Justice Breyer I do

want to correct one thing You -- you inadvertently

kept saying this is all or substantially all Its not

all or substantially all Its all or a substantial

portion And as we point out in I believe page 35 of

our brief there are -- it is a commonplace locution in

State statutes and probably Federal statutes to use all

or substantially all which is more clearly

quantitative And the State statutes these are often

corporate law statutes that talk about the sale or

alienation of all or substantially all of the assets

In that instance the stake -- the cases we

cited and many others give substantially all a

quantitative as well as a qualitative interpretation

JUSTICE BREYER Is it against the law

Which I dont know Is it against the law for a

patentholder on patent X which has 19 ingredients to

send one commonplace ingredient over to England and say

you know I -- I dont mind Here -- here is what my

patents on here but there is no British patent And I

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would love you to make this and sell it in Britain Is

that against American law

MR WAXMAN It is not for two reasons

One what -- what you have to show under 271(f) is the

act of active inducement that is --

JUSTICE BREYER What -- what he does is

just as I said You know I have a great invention in

America Its patented

MR WAXMAN Okay I got it

JUSTICE BREYER In England its not

patented And what I really -- I see no reason why you

cannot make my thing over there and sell it over there

And here by the way -- its not mine you know Its

Mr Smiths my competitors And -- and here by the

way is the patent You see what it is and go ahead

Sell it in England Its not patented there Can you

not do that Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN So there you would ask the

question whether the component or two components --

JUSTICE BREYER If we leave the component

out of it There are no components What he does is he

sends him a list

MR WAXMAN Okay That is --

JUSTICE BREYER Is that illegal

MR WAXMAN -- not illegal because in

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addition to active inducement you also have to supply a

substantial portion of the component

JUSTICE BREYER Exactly

MR WAXMAN Now after that --

JUSTICE BREYER So then the question

becomes one of what limits Congress wanted to put in an

area where it isnt illegal Now go ahead with your

argument because what theyre saying --

MR WAXMAN So if the --

JUSTICE BREYER Yeah Yeah

MR WAXMAN Sorry

If the component is -- let me use two

examples One Ill adopt Justice Alitos hypothetical

Lets assume that you have a patented pharmaceutical a

tablet that you know remediates a disease It has --

as is commonplace in these combinations it has one

active ingredient and it has five inert ingredients

that are as easy to pick up as you can imagine

The thing that is exported -- the -- the --

the factory overseas which by the way is never liable

under the statute because the statute only applies to

conduct in the United States they -- theyre happy to

go down to their local warehouse and get the -- the five

inert ingredients

But the -- the -- the molecule that does all

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the work they import from the United States

Now my friends on the other side would say

and I believe Mr Tripp actually did say if that

molecule has no non-infringing uses its illegal But

if its such a great molecule that it actually has

another non-infringing use say it also powers the

injectable form of the pharmaceutical which is not

patented that what Congress intended to do was leave

this giant doughnut hole in the rule between the active

inducement of a commodity that is non-bespoke

component

You have to -- you know theres no

liability at all You have to supply all or nearly all

of those inert components or you have to show that you

know there in fact is a patent on the injectable

form

Or take also the example that was at issue

in this Courts decision in Quanta Computer Justice

Thomas explained for the Court that that was a case that

involved the patent exhaustion doctrine where Intel was

supplying a very sophisticated microchip microprocessor

that was used by Quanta Computer in a computer that had

you know gazillion other components

And the question was whether Intels sale of

the microprocessor to LGE which then sold it to Quanta

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exhausted the patent And what this Court said is

well it didnt exhaust the patent on the combination

because obviously its only one or two components

But because that microchip -- that

microprocessor embodied the -- what it said was the

inventive aspect of the computer as a whole we are

going to take account of that and hold that patent

exhaustion applies And that would apply not only to my

pharmaceutical example or Justice Alitos you know one

super important component it would apply to a more --

you know the Quanta example where there may be -- say

there are 20 components but three of them constitute

the inventive aspect

This -- the language is capacious enough and

can be read in a commonsense way to make clear that that

is what Congress intended to address in (f)(1) by

enacting -- provided there is active encouragement for

the combination by enacting the analog the -- the (f)

analog to what is active inducement under (b)

JUSTICE GINSBURG So how do you decide --

here there are five

MR WAXMAN Yeah

JUSTICE GINSBURG And only one is

manufactured in the United States

MR WAXMAN So --

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JUSTICE GINSBURG Under your test where

there are five and lets assume that each one is

necessary to the operation of the patented device how

do you decide if one is substantial one out of five

MR WAXMAN I -- Im going to answer your

question but first of all let me simply correct a

couple of statements by my friend I think in response

to your earlier question Justice Ginsburg

The evidence in this case was that as to

300-plus million of the 700 million in sales two

components were supplied There was a -- there was a

concession at trial that both primers and the Taq

polymerase were supplied for almost half of the kits

Second of all Taq polymerase

notwithstanding my friends reference to what he found

on the Internet the testimony at trial is that the Taq

polymerase that is necessary to make these STR kits

sufficiently reliable to be commercially salable was --

and there was testimony about this at trial -- was a

form of very particular Taq polymerase made by Roche

called AmpliGold Plus which is a particular form and

was required and the testimony at trial was was

manufactured by Roche Promega and Life only in the

United States This is not your Amazoncom Taq thats

now available

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Now as to your question Justice Ginsburg

the question of whether in this case whether it was

stipulated -- it was conceded there were five

components although I must say Im not sure thats

right that of the five components one or two were

exported

And as -- and the question is how do you

know whether that one or two is sufficient That was

addressed as a factual question by the jury and --

JUSTICE GINSBURG And what were the

instructions

MR WAXMAN Excuse me

JUSTICE GINSBURG How -- how in the world

would a jury go about deciding that

MR WAXMAN Well its interesting in this

case because for other reasons Life Technologies at

other points of the trial wanted to emphasize just how

important and unique this form of Taq was It didnt

actually argue to the jury that it wasnt a substantial

portion Our lawyers argued in their -- in their

initial closing and on rebuttal look these kits all

had Taq polymerase That is a substantial component

There was no request that the jury be

instructed as to how you determine what is or isnt

substantial and the way the Federal Circuit -- the

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question for the Federal Circuit was you know is one

sufficient or is two sufficient

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Lets assume the --

MR WAXMAN If I could just finish my

sentence and then Ill --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Sure

MR WAXMAN The Federal Circuit dealt with

this as a substantial evidence question They werent

holding that one is sufficient in this case They asked

whether there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury

and they concluded that the answer was yes because all

of the testimony -- and there were days of testimony

about how polymerase works and the polymerase chain

reaction All of the testimony from our witnesses and

their witnesses emphasized just how important Taq

polymerase was So I think its substantial --

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS I think youve

finished -- I think youve finished your sentence

So --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN Thank you very much

Justice Sotomayor

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR It seems to me that what

you -- you appear to be saying is still not answering

your adversarys position

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If there are as I understood the expert

testimony from the briefing -- and I could be wrong and

youll correct me on that -- but assume my hypothetical

that there are three substantial components in this

invention How is one a substantial number of those

three substantial ones Because unless you can explain

that I dont know how to give meaning to all or

substantially all the components

And -- and I do find the governments

argument that its hard to say that substantial means

just something thats critical to the invention Every

step is critical to an invention You take out the

step the invention doesnt work

MR WAXMAN So its not part of our

argument and we dont think its a fair reading of the

Federal Circuits decision that says look if the

thing wont work without a component its a substantial

portion of the component That is a caricature of what

the Court decided

The Court as I said was engaging in

substantial -- deferential substantial evidence review

It recounted the fact that both their witnesses and our

witnesses underscored how important Taq was It didnt

catalogue the pages and pages of testimony explaining

why thats the case

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If youre asking me the hypothetical

question if all the jury heard was -- and heard -- the

jury heard nothing more than there are five components

and three are important would that be sufficient for a

jury to include -- to conclude that one was a

substantial component I wouldnt say so

But thats a caricature of what actually

happened in an eight-day trial that was very much

focused on Taq polymerase and the particular form of Taq

that was supplied here and so this Court could if this

Court agrees with us that there may be circumstances --

maybe its the Quanta example or maybe its Justice

Alitos example -- in which one component constitutes

a -- could constitute a substantial portion and

therefore liability would apply if there were conduct

that amounted to active inducement this Court could

then say okay we are going to roll up our sleeves and

we are going to read the trial transcript and we are

going to look at what the evidence was in order to

determine whether on the case as it was tried here a

reasonable juror could find that Taq polymerase was that

important

JUSTICE ALITO Well in order to do that

it would be necessary to know what a substantial

portion of the components means

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So what would you tell a jury that means

MR WAXMAN So I would tell a jury you

know following the dictionary definitions that

substantial means considerable in importance andor

amount And then you know the jury will -- and you

may consider you know whatever factors are introduced

in the case just as when -- as this Court has

explained when juries have to decide things like just

adverting to your opinion announced today what is

materiality

In Basic v Levinson this Court rejected

the advocacy that youve got to tell the jury a lot of

primary conduct depends on what materiality means and

what this Court said is the contours of that will be

explicated based on the facts of the case and case law

as it develops And in the patent context this Court

has been -- I wouldnt say single-minded but very

active in making -- in rejecting formulations that you

know help the jury determine what is obvious in light

of prior art That was KSR What is equivalent --

substantial equivalent under the doctrine of equivalence

in Warner-Jenkinson

These are all instances in which this Court

said the jury is given the standard and it then applies

the facts and circumstances to determine its met just

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as it does in negligence cases and in criminal law cases

and many other contexts in which primary conduct is

being adjusted

Here the -- the -- this parade of horribles

that gee anybody who supplies a component from the

United States could be liable if they are in the supply

chain is -- is manifestly incorrect

They have to -- they have to number one

know that there is a patent They have to know that the

product is going to be combined with others They have

to know that the combination if practiced in the United

States would infringe

JUSTICE KENNEDY Do they have to figure --

MR WAXMAN They have to go beyond that and

actively encourage send instructions or blueprints or

something in order to do it and a jury properly

instructed based on the evidence has to ascertain

gee this really is a substantial portion

JUSTICE KENNEDY Well that -- that --

MR WAXMAN This is the molecule

JUSTICE KENNEDY That -- that -- that

sounds to me much more like (f)(2) than (f)(1) but

Ill -- Ill -- Ill look at that

The -- the -- the brief by Agilent

Technologies was instructive for me as to how modern

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supply chains work They say its very complex They

ship out hundreds of different things And that seems

to me to give some help to the Petitioner because it

shows that a quantitative test is simply a good baseline

to begin with and the more egregious cases it seems to

me are under (f)(2) anyway

If we have -- if we can think of horror

stories they are mostly covered by (f)(2) arent they

MR WAXMAN I -- I dont think so Justice

Kennedy I -- I -- I guess Id make two points with

respect to the supply chain

The liability in this -- this is -- this is

a provision modeled on 271(b) It also includes the

requirement of the domestic supply of a portion of the

components But the sauce here where the rubber meets

the road is that the -- the -- the tortious conduct is

the active -- active inducement and somebody who was

simply responding to an order for supplies is in no way

at risk in this case

The reason that (f)(2) doesnt really solve

the problem is again I think pointed out by Justice

Alitos question You can have a molecule that has --

that does all the therapeutic work in the world and you

get -- and it is protected against circumvention only if

it has no substantial non-infringing uses

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Many of the most important innovative

inventive components actually are terrific because they

have two uses In my hypothetical it has a use for an

injectable form of the drug which is not patented It

is not reasonable to assume that the Congress that -- I

was going to make a reference to the exchange in the

legislative history but the Congress --

(Laughter)

MR WAXMAN -- that responded to the

governments suggestion like lets just have (f)(2)

and said well we need -- we need (f)(1) too That

is we -- we need the analog not just to contributory

infringement but to induced infringement that they

would have seen these two components as so far apart

that their gears never mesh when as this Court has

said it is a commonplace that there is overlap between

270 -- between contributory and induced infringement

Its not a complete --

JUSTICE GINSBURG If you need -- you need

(f)(1) to -- to -- to overturn Deepsouth

MR WAXMAN Oh no no not at all Not at

all

What Deepsouth said is the patent is on the

combination If the combination occurs overseas there

is no infringement Theres no 271(a) liability abroad

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Congress didnt touch that

What it said was okay 271(a) is direct

infringement 271(b) and (c) are what we call secondary

infringement It makes somebody liable even if they

werent infringing and because the combination overseas

doesnt infringe the US patent we are going to enact

these two provisions that address only US conduct

The -- the tort of 271(f)(1) --

JUSTICE BREYER Thats US conduct but

you read the brief of the German companies and they

said its a fairly common thing Weve been making

product X forever and now we invest in an American

company and lo and behold we just want to import some

wood You know just some wood and -- and -- and we

cant do it because well be had up under this because

wood is an important -- some kind of -- is -- 30 percent

of some kind of a patented thing that weve been making

for years

MR WAXMAN Justice Breyer --

JUSTICE BREYER So they are worried about

it in other words

MR WAXMAN I -- I think that I -- I -- I

dont think that their worry is validated by a correct

understanding of the statute Their -- their concern

makes no mention of the requirement that the US

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manufacturer act -- not send wood but send a

substantial portion of the components which wouldnt be

wood or saline solution or something like that and

importantly has to take the additional steps of

actively inducing

And in Grokster this Court when it was

underscoring what active inducement means said

quote Showing that the infringement was encouraged

overcomes the laws reluctance to find liability when a

defendant merely sells a commercial product suitable for

some unlawful use

And that is -- thats the point The point

here is that were talking about conduct that occurs

only in the United States that must require -- that must

include the act of active inducement specific intent

and knowledge and a component or components that

constitute a substantial portion of the components of

the invention And --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Mr Waxman --

MR WAXMAN -- the notion -- Im --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR -- if Life Technologies

sold this polymer to another company that it hadnt had

a relationship with would that other company be

considered to be infringing

MR WAXMAN No No I mean unless --

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when you say Life -- in other words if --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR This company --

MR WAXMAN -- from the United States --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR Any other company but

Life Technologies could have taken this expired patent

in England and brought all of these -- this component

this polymer from the United States and it wouldnt be

liable What would --

MR WAXMAN The importation of the -- may I

finish

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Sure

MR WAXMAN The importation of the polymer

is not reached A foreign -- a foreign assembler who

imports something from the United States is not touched

by a provision that -- that looks at and addresses only

US conduct

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

Four minutes Mr Phillips

REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF CARTER G PHILLIPS

ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS

MR PHILLIPS Thank you Mr Chief Justice

I dont intend to use all four minutes

First of all what I want to respond to is

you know my friend has spent a lot of time talking

about active inducement and the mens rea elements of

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271 And I understand that and thats certainly a

significant protection

But Congress did not take 271(b) and (c) and

simply apply them in the (f)(1) context or the (f)(2)

context What it said is there has to be a substantial

portion all or a substantial portion And thats a

fundamentally significant independent requirement that

cannot be satisfied in a situation where youre talking

about a single component

Justice Sotomayor I just wanted to respond

to your -- you know the three that are major its

important to recognize that two of those are clearly not

coming from the United States So I go back to the

point you made later which is if there are three major

components how can one of them be the substantial one

I think the answer is it cannot be under those

circumstances

Justice Kennedy you asked the question

about you know what are we supposed to do in these

circumstances as -- you know with supply chains And

the answer is -- you know the answer that my colleague

gave you was one that basically says this is a recipe

for the trolls of the world to go and chase down every

supply opportunity And do what Send them notice that

what youre sending is a staple article thats a major

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component of a piece thats in the patent and that if

you send -- keep sending that youre going to violate

that patent and were going to come after you

And whats that going to do Thats going

to disrupt the supply chain in the United States and

the ultimate effect is going to be twofold Either

purchasers outside the US will stop purchasing from

inside the US or US manufacturers will go offshore

And the one thing we know that 271(f) was never intended

to do was to accomplish that kind of an -- that kind of

an impact -- negative impact on the US economy

I urge the Court to reinstate the -- the

judgment as a matter of law that the District Court

entered

Thank you Your Honors

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS Thank you counsel

The case is submitted

(Whereupon at 1114 am the case in the

above-entitled matter was submitted)

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Page 65: Official -Subject to Final Review - Patently-OMR. PHILLIPS: Taq polymerase? JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Yes. MR. PHILLIPS: Absolutely. Yes. It's --it's readily available throughout the world
Page 66: Official -Subject to Final Review - Patently-OMR. PHILLIPS: Taq polymerase? JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Yes. MR. PHILLIPS: Absolutely. Yes. It's --it's readily available throughout the world