Sarah Fink (Of Counsel-Long Island, NY) authored “Supreme Court Merges Two Types of Contributory IP Infringement into One,” appearing in the July 16, 2026, posting of Westlaw Today. The article examines two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions ‒ Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment and Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma ‒ that significantly impact the landscape of secondary copyright and patent infringement. In analyzing the decisions, Sarah explains how the court narrowed the scope of contributory liability by emphasizing that secondary infringement requires specific intent to encourage infringement. She notes, "The Cox holding is that contributory infringement cannot rest merely on providing a product capable of infringement; rather, liability depends on affirmative encouragement of infringing uses." She concludes that these decisions are likely to limit secondary IP liability in many contexts by reinforcing that intent ‒ not mere capability ‒is the touchstone of contributory infringement.