Rarely did White's use of Equivalents avoid gimmickry.
Style, like a joke, just needs the talented discovery of equivalents.
A further important principle is the rule of substitution of equivalents.
But even without this curatorial help, one can grasp how White developed his own system of Equivalents.
It was the notion of Equivalents that gave him a way to photograph his various difficult subjects.
The watchdog argues that MPs' pay has fallen to 78% of that of "equivalents in the public sector".
The Festo case addresses a principle of the American patent system known as the doctrine of equivalents.
Technically, the high court reversed a lower court ruling that had stripped patent holders of the power to sue infringers under a law called the doctrine of equivalents.
We would accept the possibility of equivalents.... MR. CASSELL -- Well, I think the point that we would emphasize, Justice Souter, is this.
The appeals court said that inventors who made such amendments could not use the doctrine of equivalents because their amendments had narrowed the description of the invention.
The court's majority reached that conclusion based on a new interpretation of a decades-old rule of patent law known as the doctrine of equivalents.
