The U.S. government is subject to patent infringement claims for products made outside the United States using patented processes and then imported into the country for use by a government contractor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled.
The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday overturned the court’s own previous three-judge panel decision from 2006 in Zoltek Corp. v. U.S. and remanded the case to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The patent at issue is for a method of manufacturing carbon fiber sheets used in F-22 fighter jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp.
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