GRAVER TANK & MFG. CO., INC. ET AL.

v.

LINDE AIR PRODUCTS CO.

Citator

Cited By

• The Eimco Corp. v. Peterson Filters & Eng'g Co. & Komline-Sanderson Eng'g Corp., 406 F.2d 431 (10th Cir. 1968)
  …bstantially the same way and accomplishes substantially the same result as the patented device, even though they differ in name, form and shape. Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 339 U.S. 605, 70 S.Ct. 854, 94 L.Ed. 1097, reh. denied 340 U.S. 845, 71 S.Ct. 12, 95 L.Ed. 620. If the accused machine falls clearly and definitely within the claim of a patent, infringement is made out. McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc., supra. The protection of the provisions of a patent cannot be avoided…
• King-Seeley Thermos Co. v. Refrigerated Dispensers, Inc., 354 F.2d 533 (10th Cir. 1965)
  …ubstantially the same way and accomplishes substantially the same result as the patented device, even though they differ in name, form and shape. Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 339 U.S. 605, 70 S.Ct. 854 94 L.Ed. 1097, reh. denied 340 U.S. 845, 71 S.Ct. 12, 95 L.Ed. 620. If the accused machine falls clearly and definitely within the claim of a patent, infringement is made out. McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Survey, Inc., supra.10 The protection of the provisions of a patent cannot be avoide…
• Scripps Clinic & Research Found. v. Genentech, Inc., 927 F.2d 1565 (Fed. Cir. 1991)
  …Just as the purpose of the “doctrine of equivalents” is to prevent “pirating” of the patentee’s invention, Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Prod. Co., 339 U.S. 605, 607, 608, 70 S.Ct. 854, 855, 856, 94 L.Ed. 1097, 85 USPQ 328, 330, reh’g denied, 340 U.S. 845, 71 S.Ct. 12, 95 L.Ed. 620 (1950), so the purpose of the “reverse” doctrine is to prevent unwarranted extension of the claims beyond a fair scope of the patentee’s invention. The reverse doctrine of equivalents flows from the Supreme Court’s statem…