Bmd Scientific, LLC v. Mikart, LLC

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• explaining that a patentee’s withdrawal of claims should be treated as dismissal 23 of the claims without prejudice
• declining to consider the construction of claims withdrawn prior to the final judgment on the issue of infringement
• noting, without deciding, that “withdrawal of the claims [is] akin to either a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15 amendment to the complaint, or a Rule 41(a) voluntary dismissal of claims without prejudice” (internal citations omitted)
• general rule is that “a” means one or more, unless context limits the meaning to just one
• “[A] plaintiff's motion to dismiss a single claim of a multi-count complaint is properly treated as an amendment under ... [Rule] 15.”
• “[T]he use of the indefinite articles ‘a’ or ‘an’ means ‘one or more.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).