Commonwealth v. Bewley, D.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing how to distinguish between a best mode disclosure and a limitation disclosure in a specification
• explaining the importance of reading a claim in the context of the entire patent
• declining to construe a term restrictively for the purpose of sustaining its validity
• “The claim in this case refers to ‘steel baffles,’ which strongly implies that the term ‘baffles’ does not inherently mean objects made of steel.”
• “extrinsic evidence in general [is] less reliable than the patent ... in determining how to read claim terms”
• “[Cjonclusory, unsupported assertions by experts as to the definition of a claim term are not useful to a court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).