US court urged to revamp inequitable conduct doctrine in patent litigation
This article was originally published in RAJ Devices
Executive Summary
A US court has been urged to revamp the inequitable conduct doctrine, a commonly used provision in patent litigation that allows the validity of a patent to be challenged if one is able to establish that, at the time of applying for a patent, the applicant had wilfully given misleading statements or had withheld material information with the intention to deceive the Patent and Trademark Office1.