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The Rise and Fall of Dictionaries for Patent Claim Construction

By William F. Heinze

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Source: Professor Dennis Crouch at Patently-O

Acording to comments by Malcom Moody, "Since 1997, the number of patent decisions has risen by about 2% per year. Mooney's suggestion of 350 per year is a good average. See http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/statistics.html."
EG adds "Well, since we are in the mood for fluffy statistics, how about the number of patents with the word "dictionary" in the claims:"

year patents
2007 210
2006 204
2005 132
2004 123
2003 130
2002 148
2001 123
2000 163
1999 156
1998 163
1997 114
1996 80
1995 73
1994 78
1993 55
1992 51
1991 59
1990 48
For a linguist's take on the Supreme Court's use of dictionaries, see http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/johnson.html

Full post as published by I/P Updates on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).

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