Apex Inc. v. Raritan Computer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the term “circuit,” coupled with identifiers such as “interface,” “program- ming,” and “logic,” connoted sufficient structure to a person of ordinary skill in the art
• holding that even the term “circuit” 5 “itself connotes some structure”
• adding that the presumption “does not shift to such party the burden of proof in the sense of the risk of nonpersuasion”
• finding that dictionary definition of “circuit” — “the combination of a number of electrical devices and conductors that . . . fulfill some desired function” — by itself connotes some structure
• considering the use of the term \circuit\ in the claim limitation \a first interface circuit for receiving keyboard and cursor control device signals from the workstation\
• reversing a district court ruling that relied too heavily on “single words of the limitations … as opposed to the limitations as a whole”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).