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doctrine of equivalents en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US) A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.

Relateds

doctrine of foreign equivalents · an unrelated doctrine of trademark law