In May the U.S. Supreme Court decided the famous Festo case, overturning the 2000 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling that curtailed the doctrine of equivalents. The decision has inspired anything but unanimity among the IP bar. IP Worldwide asked IP lawyers and professors four questions about Festo and limited answers to two sentences. Here are some of their short-winded replies.
August 15, 2002 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
No one. Like Dickens’s Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the Festo case will go on forever.
— Donald Ware, litigator at Foley Hoag (Boston)
Too close to call.
— J. D. Harriman, prosecutor at Coudert Brothers (Los Angeles)
If I were a betting man, I’d be putting my chips on Shoketsu.
— Gregory Castanias, litigator at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (Washington, D.C.)
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The lawyers.
— Ramsey Al-Salam, litigator at Perkins Coie (Seattle)
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