Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2002-05-28

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*726 Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to address once again the relation between two patent law concepts, the doctrine of equivalents and the rule of prosecution history estoppel. The Court considered the same concepts in Warner-Jenk…

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