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· 10/12/2007

Allvoice Computing PLC v. Nuance Communications, Inc.

Citations

  • 504 F.3d 1236
  • 84 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1886
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 23949
  • 2007 WL 2963933

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the specification contained sufficient structure be- cause the plaintiff’s expert provided “the only assessment” on record of the specification’s adequacy and the record contained no contradictory evidence
  • adopting one party’s POSA definition where the other party “did not pose a different definition nor dispute the above definition”
  • approving algorithm as sufficient where there were “several straightforward ways that [it] could be implemented by one skilled in the art using well-known features of the Windows operating system”
  • “The test for definiteness asks whether one skilled in the art would understand the bounds of the claim when read in light of the specification.” (citation omitted)
  • “The test for definiteness asks whether one skilled in the art would understand the bounds of the claim when read in light of the specification.”
  • the patent's figures and accompanying description were \sufficient algorithmic structure\ for means-plus-function claims

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Judges: Newman, Rader, Gajarsa

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