Legal Definition and Related Resources of Equivalent

equal in work or value , force , power , effect , import or the like. In patent law, an act or substance which is known in the arts as a proper substitute for some other act or substance employed as an element in the invention , whose substitution for that other act or substance does not in any manner vary the idea of means . It possesses t.r.e. characteristics: (1) must be capable of performing the same office in the invention as the act or substance whose place it supplies; (2) must relate to the form or embodiment alone and not affect in any degree the idea of means; and (3) must have been known in the arts at the date of the patent as endowed with this capability. See Imhaeuser v Buerk, 101 U.S. 647, 25 L.Ed. 945.

Of the same value. Some times a condition must be literally accomplished in forma speeifica; but some may be fulfilled by an equivalent, per aequipollenSj when such appears to be the intention of the parties. RoUe, Abr. 451; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 760. In Patent Law. As applied to machines, a de’vice which performs the same result as another, in substantially the same way. 58 Fed. 281. As applied to the chemical action of fluids, it means “equally good.” 7 Wall. (U. S.) 330.

adjective

• alike
• as good as
• balancing
• coequal
• comparable
• compensatory
• equal
• equal in effect
• equal in force
• equal in power
• equal in significance
• equal in value
• equalized
• equipollent
• even
• identical
• identical in size
• identical in value
• interchangeable
• like
• of equal force
• of equal value
• of equal weight
• on a par with
• parallel
• pro re valere
• reciprocal
• same
• similar
• substitutable
• synonymous
• tantamount
• without difference
• Associated Concepts: equivalent acts
• fair equivalent
• substantially equivalent

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