Sentence examples for use the doctrine from inspiring English sources

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.

In effect, the ruling meant that if an inventor had amended his patent application to specify rope, then he could not use the doctrine of equivalents to object when someone else substituted wire.

But a closer look at the ruling makes it clear that while the Supreme Court restored the right of all patent holders to use the doctrine, it set up new requirements that mean most will not qualify to use it.

It reveals, perhaps, a desire to use the doctrine of sin and righteousness as ammunition in our culture wars.

The report suggested that, as an alternative to prosecution at the ICC, a third country, such as South Korea, could use the doctrine of "universal jurisdiction" to prosecute North Korean officials for crimes against humanity.

The Bush administration used the doctrine to block more than two dozen lawsuits.

This metaphysical theory also uses the doctrine of sphota ("that from which the meaning bursts forth").

Priestley used "the doctrine of association of ideas" to support his views on language, history, and education as well.

So with the appeals court ruling, a majority of patent holders suddenly found themselves barred from using the doctrine when fighting infringement.

Five of the six Jesuits were born in Spain, where judges have used the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed outside of the country, as they did against the former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Five of the six Jesuits were born in Spain, where judges have used the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed outside of the country, as they did against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.