Re: HELP with PATENT INFRINGEMENT

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Robert,

Yes, you may have a good case. However, an attorney would
need to analyze the details of your patent and the US
company's product.

I am an intellectual property attorney and law school
professor. You can see my bio at
http://www.schinner.com/html/the_schinner_law_group_-
_d__al.html

Our firm has a patent agent who could analyze these issues
more inexpensively than an attorney would charge.

Regards,

D. Alexander Floum, Esq.

On 2/15/02, Robert wrote:
> I live in the UK and hold a granted US patent.I have just
> discovered that a large US company, with whom I have had
> contact with in the past regarding licencing,has virtually
> copied my patent specs and are marketing the product.They
> have, I believe, purposely left out one feature of my
> patent, presumably to get round any infringement
> problems.In doing this they have made the product less
> efficient and have had to state as much in their marketing
> literature,and in order to make the whole product work at
> all they have had to introduced a principal that dose the
> same job as the missing feature.I believe this still makes
> them liable to infringement acording to what is
> called "Doctrine of Equivalents".Can anyone give me any
> advice or has anyone had any experience along these
> lines ?.I am a private individual and as I live in the UK
> it is hard to know what is the right procedure and how to
> start any "ball rolling". Thanks.

Re: HELP with PATENT INFRINGEMENT, 5/01/02, by D. Alexander Floum.

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