BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech, L.P.

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• holding that liability exists only where the accused infringer has “someone else carry out one or more of the claimed steps on its behalf’
• holding that liability exists only where the accused infringer has “someone else carry out one or more of the claimed steps on its behalf”
• holding that an actor is liable for infringement under § 271(a) if it acts through an agent or contracts with another to perform one or more steps of a claimed method
• holding that an actor is liable for infringement under § 271(a) if it acts through an agent or contracts with another to perform one or more steps of a claimed method
• noting that the record “contained no evidence even of a contractual relationship” between defendant and other partici pants in the alleged infringement
• noting that there was also no evidence in the record “even of’ a contractual relationship between the defendant and the financial institutions that performed some of the steps claimed in the method patent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).