Document Type
Book Part
Publication Date
2010
Status
Accepted
Abstract
This paper explains why the use of prosecution history estoppel to limit the doctrine of equivalents only when an estoppel exists is unsound. The standards for overcoming an estoppel should be used in every case and not just where there is an estoppel.
SSRN Link
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2208484
Recommended Citation
Martin J. Adelman, Patent Claiming in the United States: Central, Peripheral, or Mongrel in IP Theory (vol. 1, 2010).