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Talbert Fuel Systems Patents Co. v. Unocal Corp.
The CAFC found that, even accepting the patentee's view that gasoline
fractionation does not readily achieve or require an exact endpoint, the
prosecution history does not permit a claim scope that dep
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Deering Precision Instruments, L.L.C. v. Vector Distrib. Sys., Inc.
The CAFC remanded a case to the district court to determine the question is
whether the patentee can rebut the Festo II presumption that the amended
text was composed with awareness
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ResQNet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc.
The CAFC rejected a claim construction of a patent that was based upon a
parent application that did not share the same claim language.
For more patent information, see
http://www.patentcribsheet.com/Cases/resqnet
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Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mayo Foundation
In response to a request to review the district court's determination that
the Mullan reference anticipates the claims in issue because the patented
mouse is inherent in Mullan reference, the CAFC conclud
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Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co.
The CAFC found that first question in a prosecution history estoppel inquiry
is whether an amendment filed in the Patent and Trademark Office has
narrowed the literal scope of a claim. If the amendm
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Med. Instrumentation & Diagnostics Corp. v. Elekta AB
The CAFC stated that the correct inquiry is to look at the disclosure of the
patent and determine if one of skill in the art would have understood that
disclosure to encompass software for digital
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AK Steel Corp. v. Sollac
The CAFC concluded that, based the specification, silicon in excess of 0.5%
by weight would materially alter the basic and novel properties of the
invention, and that the claim language "coating metal consisting essentially
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Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Cable & Wireless Internet Serv., Inc.
The CAFC found that the appellant had failed to meet the burden of showing
that no reasonable jury could have found the disputed claims to be
nonobvious in light of the evidence presented.
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Bayer AG v. Housey Pharm., Inc.
The CAFC affirmed the dismissal of Housey's infringement claims because it
concluded that infringement under section 271(g) of 35 U.S.C. is limited to
physical goods that were manufactured and does not include informat
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E-Pass Techs. v. 3Com Corp.
The CAFC vacated the grant of summary judgment of noninfringement because
the district court's decision was based on an incorrect claim construction
of the electronic multi-function card requiring the dimensions of a stand
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Anchor Wall Sys., Inc. v. Rockwood Retaining Walls, Inc.
The CAFC held that the phrase "generally parallel" envisions some amount of
deviation from exactly parallel, because the claim language itself expressly
ties the adverb "generally" to the adjec
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TorPharm, Inc. v. Ranbaxy Pharms., Inc.
The CAFC found that, despite TorPharm's assertion of novelty of a product
during prosecution of its patent, the lack of novelty of the product does
not by itself establish that the process for making it is obvi
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Intellectual Prop. Dev., Inc. vs.. UA-Columbia Cablevision of Westchester,
Inc.
The CAFC rejected the district court's reasoning that one claim limitation
may not be responsive to another merely because they are located in the same
physical structur
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Sunrace Roots Enterprise Co., Ltd., et al. v. Sram Corp.
While the CAFC found this to be a "close case," it concluded that the
ordinary meaning of the term "shift actuator" controls because neither the
specification nor the prosecution history clearl
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Omega Engineering v. Raytech
The CAFC found that the trial court's ruling incorporated into the claim
language a novel negative limitation, precluding the laser beam affected by
the "means for causing" from striking the center or the interior of the
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Eli Lilly & Co. v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. of Wash.
The CAFC found that the Director's two-way test for determining whether two
parties claim the "same patentable invention" reflects a permissible reading
of 37 C.F.R. 1.601(n), promulgated pursua
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