The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 8, Problem 2BS
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Case summary: The persons J and A invented and patented a hard-bearing device for balancing rotors which they never used. A company E made an invention for automobile wheel balancing which was similar to the patented invention of persons J and A.
To explain:Possibility of patent infringement by the company E.
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