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patent infringement
(redirected from Literal infringement)

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Noun1.patent infringement - violation of the rights secured by a patent
infringement, violation - an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment"


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And a court that has just rejected a literal infringement argument--the only kind of court likely to spend much time thinking about equivalents issues pre-trial--is unlikely to undo the work of claim construction by sending the issue of infringement by equivalents to the jury.
Actually, [section] 112, paragraph 6, has been construed to bring into play two standards, one for literal infringement and another if literal infringement is not established.
In January of this year, Osteotech filed a motion for summary judgment of literal infringement of claims 4 and 10 of Osteotech's United States Patent 5,290,558, or the '558 Patent , which the District Court granted in April 2001.
 
 
 
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