Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This comment examines the doctrine of equivalents, focusing on the tensions created by the continued attempts of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to bring certainty and structure to this equity-based doctrine. As the comment unfortunately concludes, these attempts to introduce certainty and structure have increased the confusion as to many different aspects of patent litigation and practice. The author suggests that a more viable solution to the problem would be to restrict the scope of the doctrine rather than add additional analytical restrictions to the doctrine of equivalents.
First Page
105
Last Page
144
Publication Date
11-1-1992
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Craane, Paul C.
(1992)
"At the Boundaries of Law and Equity: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Doctrine of Equivalents,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Suggested Citation
Paul C. Craane, Comment, At the Boundaries of Law and Equity: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Doctrine of Equivalents, 13 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 105 (1992).
