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SCOTUS Denies Appeal Seeking to Clarify Federal Circuit’s ‘Why’ Requirement for Establishing Section 112(f) Equivalency

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari filed in Genuine Enabling Technology LLC v. Sony Group Corp., which challenged lower court rulings dismissing Genuine Enabling Technology’s (GET) patent infringement claims against Sony Playstation controllers under the doctrine of equivalents. In denying cert, the Court avoided clarifying whether a patentee’s statutory presumption under 35 U.S.C. § 112(f) to equivalents of a means-plus-function claim can be extinguished as

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SCOTUS Denies Appeal Seeking to Clarify Federal Circuit’s ‘Why’ Requirement for Establishing Section 112(f) Equivalency
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