This term the Court has had before it cases involving transformational issues in intellectual property law, including the standard of proof of obviousness, the law of inducing infringement, copyright in goods first sold abroad and the rights of inventors in federally funded inventions. Anthony Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses the cases of i4i v. Microsoft, Global-Tech v. DEB, Costco v. Omega, and Stanford v. Roche, and their likely impact on IP practitioners and companies alike.