This year we are covering three claim construction cases from the Federal Circuit—one coming from the Board and the two from district court. Taken together, the cases are a good reminder of the high ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board obviousness determination even though it found the Board had improperly ...

“‘As a matter of claim construction, ‘identical’ cannot mean ‘identical to a portion’ because ‘identical’ means the same.” – Federal Circuit On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s effectively reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back ...