美国专利法中方法权要(method)直接侵权的考量

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35 U.S. Code § 271 - Infringement of patent

(a)Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

Direct infringement requires that the performance of all the method steps in U.S. be attributable to a single actor – referred to as the "single actor rule".
To show direct infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a patentee must prove that a single actor practices each element of an asserted patent claim. This rule derives from the statute itself, which states, “whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.” Thus, liability for direct patent infringement requires a party to make, use, sell, or offer to sell the patented invention, meaning the entire invention.
Direct infringement requires a party to perform or use each and every step or element of a claimed method or product. Warner-Jenkinson Co., Inc. v. Hilton Davis Corp., 520 U.S. 17, 117 S.Ct. 1040, 137 L.Ed.2d 146 (1997)

只有方法中的所有步骤被执行时，才会侵犯方法权要