Editing AME 44590 Homework, Summer 2011 (section)

=Due Monday 20 June 2011=
*If your last name starts with a letter between and including A through L, read [[Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis Petitioner Brief]]
*If your last name starts with a letter between and including M through Z, read [[Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis Respondent Brief]]
* We will do the debate based on the two briefs from Monday.
* Also, having gone through it myself I can sympathize with the point of view that everything probably seems vague and problematic.  At this point you would probably read a claim and be pretty hard pressed to describe the extent of the claims since the doctrine of equivalents would make the bounds for it very unclear.  To help with this, your assignment is to go to Westlaw and look up Warner-Jenkinson.  Find the headnote(s) dealing with the doctrine of equivalents and try to find a case with a pretty clear holding.  In other words, even though the trial happened and the result was appealed, the outcome wasn't too debatable.  Finding a critical mass of cases that have "clear" outcomes in terms of which side of the equivalents line they fall will probably help clarify this.  Pick your case and read it.  Be ready to discuss it on Wednesday.

You must make a reasonable attempt to find a unique case (unique in that you are the only one in the class that reads it).  Knowing what everyone else in the class chooses will be difficult obviously, but at a minimum, your case must be different than anyone else in your flat.