CON: Dish Network and Echostar Technologies, Amici Curiae
E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Counsel of Record
Dish Network is a satellite television company, and Echostar is a technology company that manufactures digital set-top boxes for satellite television service providers. E. Joshua Rosenkranz is a partner with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he specializes in intellectual property, commercial, and anti-trust law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 2, 2014. Under Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (1984), the technology provider could never be directly liable for an infringing use. But it could be secondarily liable under…
