On Friday, February 1, Akamai Technologies Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a conditional cross-petition for writ of certiorari in response to Limelight Networks Inc.’s petition for writ of certiorari. Akamai and MIT said the U.S. Supreme Court “should deny [Limelight’s] petition for a writ of certiorari,” adding that “if the court grants that petition, however, it should also grant this conditional cross-petition so the court can fully consider the question of liability for joint infringement, not just under one provision of the patent infringement statute . . . as Limelight requests, but under all relevant provisions of that statute.” Finnegan represented Akamai in this matter.