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Intellectual Property

Feb. 1, 2005

'Knorr-Bremse' Assists With Patent-Infringement Defense

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris - At the end of the liability phase in most patent-infringement trials, the jury is asked to decide whether the patent was infringed and, if so, whether the infringer did so "willfully." For decades, the law has been that, where "a potential infringer has actual notice of another's patent rights, he has an affirmative duty ... to seek and obtain competent legal advice from counsel before the initiation of any possible infringing activity."

Focus Column

Intellectual Property

By Robert P. Andris
        
        At the end of the liability phase in most patent-infringement tr...

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