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▸ noun: (law, US) A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.
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▸ noun: (law, US) A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.
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doctrine of foreign equivalents,
equivalency,
equivalation,
æquivalent,
equivalence,
equivalent,
æquivalency,
equiv.,
equivalence principle,
equating,
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