doctrine of equivalence

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What were the most popular articles of the Kluwer Patent Blog in 2018? A look at the list shows that - even more strongly than in previous years - one topic drew more readers than anything else: the…

When it comes to infringement of patents, the doctrine of equivalence has gained some more attention in the last few years in German courts and indeed also in some of my earlier posts on this blog …

The doctrine of equivalence has seen some kind of renaissance in German case law recently. In short words, there are three questions to be asked to decide for equivalent infringement if there is no…