Intellectual Property Law

District court's claim construction too narrow, but noninfringement finding affirmed anyway

By McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.

In a decision yesterday, the Federal Circuit held that a district court construed a claim limitation too narrowly.  However, even under the broader construction, summary judgment was still appropriate, because there was no genuine issue of fact that the accused method still did not practice that element, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents.

More detail of PSN Ill., Inc. v. Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc. after the jump.

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Full post as published by FileWrapper on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).