This case seems more than a little silly to me and I too don't understand how it got all the way to the Supreme Court.
Limelight is a global platform for cloud content and otherwise. Akamai Technologies are 'creators' of internet content. They patent their inventions. Somehow Limelight believes as a platform, a third party to Akamai. Akamai's inventions would be purchased and/or leased by customers and may or may not storm them on Limelight.
The problem here is Limelight. Limelight does not have a policy that protects patents and they are abusing the law. Limelight wants to state as a provider of a platform they have to be held harmless to their customer's content. Wrong. While the customers are liable for abuse of law, Limelight cannot be held harmless as a facilitator of abuse of law. Limelight provides the opportunity to infringe on patents, that is serious. Limelight looks the other way and profits from it. Both Limelight and Akamai are Wall Street companies.
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON, April 30
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court onWednesday (click here) appeared unsure how to proceed in a dispute over whether Limelight Networks Inc infringed upon patented technology for managing Web images and video held by Akamai Technologies Inc.
The nine justices are weighing whether a company can be held liable for inducing patent infringement when the final step that leads to infringement is carried out by a third party.
But during much of a one-hour-long argument, the justices focused less on the legal issue and more on concerns about whether the high court should issue its ruling without first asking a lower court to take a second look at the case....
