The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Litigating Inducement and Willfulness after Commil and Akamai" on June 4, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Paul Berghoff of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, Steven Moore of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, and Frank Nuzzi of Siemens Corporation will consider where the law surrounding the inducement of patent infringement stands now and give their thoughts on questions such as:

• Does Commil increase the value of opinions of counsel for non-infringement?  The opinion states that a "reasonable" reading of the patent that results in non-infringement can be a defense to inducement.
• How will Commil be used in cases involving willfulness?
• Will patentees succeed in arguing that a good-faith belief in invalidity should not be a defense to willfulness?
• Is the next step for the issue of divided infringement at the Federal Circuit or at the U.S. Supreme Court?
• What strategy should litigants or potential litigants follow in the meantime?

The registration fee for the webinar is $130 (government and academic rates are available upon request).  Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.