Certainty and Discretion in Patent Law: The On Sale Bar, the Doctrine of Equivalents, and Judicial Power in the Federal Circuit

Name

Certainty and Discretion in Patent Law: The On Sale Bar, the Doctrine of Equivalents, and Judicial Power in the Federal Circuit

Cite

67 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1151

Year

1994

Bluebook cite

Thomas K. Landry, Certainty and Discretion in Patent Law: The On Sale Bar, the Doctrine of Equivalents, and Judicial Power in the Federal Circuit, 67 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1151 (1994).

Author

Thomas K. Landry

URL

wl: 67 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1151

Item Type

article

Summary

This Article is divided into three main sections. Section I canvasses American legal history and traces the historical competition between certainty and discretion. Section II applies rule-sensitive particularism to two areas of patent law: the "on sale" bar and the doctrine of equivalents. Section III examines the judicial structure within which patent laws are administered.

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