Definition von doctrine of foreign equivalents im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
A rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated to determine whether they are registrable as trademarks, or are either descriptive or confusingly similar with existing marks
A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement even though the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention