infringement opinion
Patents. A patent attorney’s opinion about the probable outcome of an infringement hearing or trial on whether a particular product or process infringes one or more claims of another’s patent.
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advice of counsel defense
advice-of-counsel defense. Patents. In an action for infringement, an assertion that after learning of the owner’s rights, the defendant sought, obtained, and relied on an attorney’s well-reasoned opinion before continuing the challenged act. • Courts treat the assertion as a factor in determining whether an act was willful (to support en-hanced damages). It is not
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abstraction filtration comparison test
abstraction-filtration-comparison test. Copyright. A judicially created test for determining whether substantial similarity exists between two works in an action for infringement. • In the first step, the court dissects the copy-righted work’s structure and isolates each level of abstraction or generality (abstraction test). In the second step, the court examines each level of abstraction and
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