Ecolab, Inc. v. Envirochem, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “substantially uniform” should be construed as “largely but not wholly in the same form”
• noting that Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1176 (9th ed. 1983), defines “substantially” to mean “largely but not wholly that which is specified”
• noting that Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1176 (9th ed. 1983), defines “substantially” to mean “largely but not wholly that which is specified”
• finding that hiring of new employees, modification of equipment, engagement in sales and marketing activities related to new [product] are damages normally associated with finding of infringement and not the typé of damages necessary for economic prejudice
• “Where the function is not recited in the claim itself by the patentee, we do not import such a limitation.”
• “Where the function is not recited in the claim itself by the patentee, we do not import such a limitation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).