colorable alteration

colorable alteration. Intellectual property. A modification that effects no real or substantial change, but is made only to distinguish an invention or work from an existing patent or copyright; a small change made in a product or process solely to avoid literal infringement of an earlier patent’s claim. — Also termed colorable deviation. [Cases: Patents 174; Copyrights and Intellectual Property 53(1). C.J.S. Patents § 308.]

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