Following a bench trial, the District Court of Massachusetts held that Ethicon’s “shepherd’s hook” design for finger actuation of a forceps is not equivalent to a “finger loop” claimed by Covidien’s patent no. 9,241,…
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When is a patent infringement defendant entitled to summary judgment of non-infringement under the doctrine of equivalents? That question was addressed in CSB-Systems International, Inc. v. SAP America, Inc., No. 10-2156 (E.D. P…
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