Supreme Court issues long-awaited decision, upholding doctrine of equivalents, with limitations, in patent cases
The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a landmark decision of enormous import, which have United States inventors and patent attorneys feeling festive, or at least breathing a collective sigh of relief. In Festo v. Shoketsu, __ U.S. ___ (2002) (decided May 28, 2002), the Court vacated a judgment of the Federal Circuit that severely […]