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file-wrapper estoppel

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From 315 U.S. 126 - Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp. · 1942Most cited · 656 citing opinions

recourse may not be had to that doctrine [of equivalents] to recapture claims which the patentee has surrendered by amendment

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