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534 documents for doctrine of equivalents means plus function

- Bateman v. Por-Ta Target (also known as Porta Target), (Fed. Cir. 2005)
... lateral edges of the metallic plates; clamp means releasably attached to the at least one facing str... court construed "clamp means" as a means-plus-function limitation. As to its function, the distr... patent, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, because the accused device did not...
- Federal Circuits
- Means-plus-function clauses in patent claims: a tortuous path.
... described in the specification and equivalents thereof. (4) This "means" provision allowed patent... merely an application of the so-called doctrine of equivalents to the means-plus-function arena. I...
- Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal
- Vol. 33 Nbr. 1, September 2006
- Bateman v. Por-Ta Target (also known as Porta Target), (Fed. Cir. 2005)
... lateral edges of the metallic plates; clamp means releasably attached to the at least one facing str... court construed "clamp means" as a means-plus-function limitation. As to its function, the distr... patent, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, because the accused device did not...
- Federal Circuits

- The (unnoticed) demise of the doctrine of equivalents.
... other kinds of subject matter, is the "function-way-result" test. This tripartite test finds equiv... of equivalents analysis of so-called "means-plus-function" claims, a doctrine that allows stru...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 59 Nbr. 4, February 2007
- Al-Site Corporation and Magnivision, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Vsi International, Inc. and Myron Orlinsky, Defendants-Cross Appellants., 174 F.3d 1308 (Fed. Cir. 1999)
... but did infringe those patents under the doctrine of equivalents. The jury further concluded that th... of a pair of eyeglasses and a hanger means for removably mounting the eyeglasses on a cantile... that the "fastening means" was a means-plus-function element subject to the interpretation req...
- Federal Circuits
- Bateman v. Por-Ta Target (also known as Porta Target), (2005)
...clamp means releasably attached to the at least one facing str... court construed "clamp means" as a means-plus-function limitation. As to its function, the dist... patent, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, because the accused device did not...
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Pennwalt Corporation, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Durand-Wayland, Inc., Appellee/Cross-Appellant., 833 F.2d 931 (Fed. Cir. 1987)
... any claim, literally or under the doctrine of equivalents. Unable to view that finding as cle... of the invention is to provide a rapid means for sorting items, such as fruit, by color, weight... means, each of which performs specified functions. The specification describes the details of a "har... the claims by going beyond the means-plus-function language of a claim limitation and compar...
- Federal Circuits
- Clearstream Wastewater Systems, Inc. and Jerry L. Mckinney, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Hydro-Action, Inc. and T. Gig Drewery, Defendants-Appellees., 206 F.3d 1440 (Fed. Cir. 2000)
... court erred by limiting its construction of means-plus-function claim language to exclude from cover... of claims 1, 3, 4, or 7, or their equivalents. On appeal, Clearstream disputes the district cour... contends that application of the doctrine of claim differentiation makes it clear that indep...
- Federal Circuits
- Actv, Inc. and Hypertv Networks, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. the Walt Disney Company, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and Espn, Inc., Defendants-Appellees., 346 F.3d 1082 (Fed. Cir. 2003)
... properly consider infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, we vacate the district court's gra...a means for receiving programming, wherein the programming... drafted with certain limitations in means-plus-function format as defined in 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶...
- Federal Circuits
- Furnace Brook, LLC v. Overstock.com, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2007)
... "telephone terminal" and "customer terminal means". limitations of claims 1 and 5 of the asserted pa... telephone are capable of performing that function, those devices must actually be performing that fu... access the Internet, are captured by the doctrine of equivalents, even if they are not within the li... interpreted the limitation as a means-plus-function limitation in accordance with 35 U.S.C. �...
- Federal Circuits