Intellectual Property
Sep. 30, 2003
Ruling Raises Bar for 'Equivalents' Case
SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen months after the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for patent owners to go after copycat products, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has drafted even more daunting obstacles for patentees attempting to invoke the so-called doctrine of equivalents.




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