functional

functional
Having or performing a function. Affecting the purpose, action, or performance of goods, or the facility or economy of processing, handling, or using them. J. C. Penney Co. v H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. (CA8 Mo) 120 F2d 949. Where used in patent law with reference to the exact point of novelty in an invention, "means" or "mechanism" may expose the inventor's claim of patentability to attack on the ground that it is functional, but where used with reference to the makeup of the field in which the real invention finds its usefulness or with reference to the connecting parts which permit the salient novelty of the invention to accomplish its function, these words are only a convenient formula of the broadest equivalency of which the real invention permits. Goodwin v Carloss Co. (CA6 Tenn) 116 F2d 644.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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