☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Doctrine of Equivalents

A legal rule in patent law holding that a device or process may infringe a patent even if it does not literally fall within the patent claims, provided it performs substantially the same function in substantially the same way to achieve substantially the same result.

Etymology: English legal compound · Category: Patent Law · Source: Graver Tank v. Linde Air Products (1950)
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