Renewed Interest in The Doctrine of Prosecution Laches.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2004, May 2004
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Renewed Interest in The Doctrine of Prosecution Laches.
Reprinted with permission from Intellectual Property Today, August 2004
On remand from an interlocutory appeal before the Federal Circuit, the District Court of Nevada recently ruled in Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation Limited Partnership, 301 F.Supp.2d 1147 (D. Nev. 2004), that the equitable doctrine of prosecution laches may restrict enforcement of a patent. This ruling has broad consequences because it means that even if the applicable U.S. statutes and Patent Office re...See the full content of this document
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