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Patent mis-translation case

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

The PatentHawk blog covers Gillet Outillage v. Fisher Tool which involved the mis-translation within US 6,189,190:

The purported mistranslation is this: The patent claims a device for fastening together the pliers' handles using what would, in English, be termed a latch. One end of the latch is fixed to one handle by a hinge; at the latch's end is a hook that catches on a post on the other handle, thereby locking the two handles together. In the French patent, the latch is called a "mécanisme à cliquet;" in the U.S. patent, it is termed a "ratchet mechanism."

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Full post as published by IPBiz on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).