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A pitfall with combined US and German patent litigation

Managing IP Correspondent
August 31, 2004

Axel von Hellfeld of Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff in Munich examines how the US and German courts treat questions of equivalence, and highlights a key difference between the two systems

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