Festo SMC( ) No.00-1543, 2002 5 28 Festo Winans 1853 (5:4) Graver Tank 1959 imitation three parts test function-way-result Warner-Jenkinson ph 6.0 9.0 ph5 ph9 ph9 ph6.0 7:5 Warner-Jenkinson Graver Tank 1997 3 3 Warner-Jenkinson Hilton Davis Chemical No.95-728 CAFC three parts test element by element as a whole (known interchangeable) (intent) - 1 -
CAFC CAFC (flexible bar) Hughes I (complete bar) Kinzenbaw CAFC flexible bar Festo Carroll 3,779,401 (Dec. 18. 1973) (reexamination) "a pair of resilient sealing rings" Stoll 4,354,125 (Oct. 12. 1982) 112 "first sealing rings" "a cylindrical sleeve made of a magnetizable material" Fest Fest Festo 1994 2 Carroll Stoll - 2 -
Festo CAFC 1995 12 Festo 1997 3 Warner-Jenkinson Festo CAFC 50USPQ2d1385, Fed. Cir., 1999 4 19 Carroll Stoll Festo CAFC 51USPQ2d1959, Fed. Cir., 1999 8 20 Festo CAFC Festo CAFC Fed Cir., No.95 1066, 2000 11 29 (11:1) (11:1) (complete bar) (8:4) - 3 -
(11:1) 102 103 112 (complete bar Stoll Carroll Festo U.S.S.C. No.00 1543, 2002 5 28 CAFC flexible complete bar CAFC (tangential relation) - 4 -
complete bar flexible bar rule complete bar Festo 10 2 24 element by element W-J W-J known interchangeable way-function-result (three parts test) 29 2-5 -
29 2 102 103 112 8.9.30 9.6.17 11.1.28 HP AS 8.9.26-6 -
Festo 36.5.4 47.1.31 Festo 48.4.20-7 -
all element rule element as a whole as a whole function-way-result vs dopant negative dopant element by element interchangeability (file wrapper) USPTO file (file wrapper estoppel) (prosecution history estoppel) Festo - 8 -
prosecution history estoppel Festo prosecution history estoppel prosecution history estoppel Prosecution History Estoppel abandon External Act Intention complete bar - 9 -
Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies surrender specifically excluded prosecution history estoppel prosecution history estoppel summary judgment discovery - 10 -
clearly erroneous De Novo certiorari Festo flexible bar Festo CAFC Festo Festo Festo CAFC Festo CAFC complete bar rule Festo CAFC complete bar rule flexible bar rule - 11 -
Festo 40 CAFC IBM CAFC Festo Festo Festo flexible bar Festo Festo Festo complete bar flexible bar Festo Festo surrender surrender - 12 -
PCT US 1. Vol.94 No.5, Vol.96 No.8, Vol.97 No.5, Vol.98 No.1-2, Vol.99 No.7-8 2. Vol.52 No.9 3. 4. 5. Vol.49 No.7-8 6. 13 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Festo 2002 5 28 HP 13. Festo oral argument 2002 1 8 HP 14. 14 9 4-13 -