
Friday, March 19, 2010 to Friday, March 19, 2010
Patent Infringement
Doctrines of Equivalents and Purposive Construction in US, UK and Germany. Topics to Include: Approaches for assessing the inventor's intention in the claim language in Europe, Principles of claim construction in the context of the specification and the art, Significance of the effect of variants on the way the invention works, Use of expert evidence, Claim interpretation approaches of a US Examiner, Judge and Jury, Prosecution history estoppels in the US, Compliance with EPC Article 69 and Protocol, Recommendations for obtaining and enforcing broad patent rights.
