At a glance, two of the Supreme Court’s most recent cases have little in common: one involves electronic components in circuit boards, and the other involves a pressurized irrigation system for cleaning wounds during surgery. But the Court recently granted certiorari and combined the cases to decide the standard through which lower courts should decide willful infringement in patent cases.

How might small businesses be affected by the two-part test used to evaluate alleged infringers?  Read more about willful infringement.

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In addition to Thriving Attorney, Darin M. Klemchuk is founder of Klemchuk LLP, a litigation, intellectual property, and transactional law firm located in Dallas, Texas.  He also co-founded Project K, a charity devoted to changing the world one random act of kindness at a time.  Click to read more about Darin Klemchuk's practice as an intellectual property lawyer.