Windsurfing International, Inc. v. Drake

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “ ‘equitable’ intervening right defense ... provides for the continued manufacture, use or sale of the items in question, if the court deems such continued activity to be equitable”
• “the ‘absolute’ intervening rights defense ... absolutely protects the right of an infringer of a reissued patent to use or sell specific things which were actually made, purchased or used before the grant of the reissue patent”

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