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Before the Federal Circuit's en bane decision in Festo, courts often took a relatively permissive (that is, patent-friendly) stance towards prosecution history estoppel by allowing patent owners to capture ground in court they had unnecessarily given up in patent prosecution.
Most amendments made to the claims and many arguments in the record invoke the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel, which limits the patentee's ability to assert infringement by a product that does not literally meet the claim's limitations but is close enough that a court may find infringement.
Alexander, Cabining the Doctrine of Equivalents in Festo: A Historical Perspective on the Relationship Between the Doctrine of Equivalents and Prosecution History Estoppel, 51 Am.
 
 
 
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