Digital Biometrics, Inc. v. Identix, Inc. And Randall C. Fowler

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that the prosecution history “may contain contemporaneous exchanges between the patent applicant and the [USPTO] about what the claims mean”
• observing that the prosecution history “may contain contemporaneous exchanges between the patent applicant and the [USP-TO] about what the claims mean”
• basing the claim construction on the entire written description, despite an isolated passage in apparent conflict
• stating that “[t]he actual words of the claim are the controlling focus”
• basing the claim construction on the entire written description, despite an isolated passage in apparent conflict
• focusing on the public’s right to rely on definitive statements construing claim terms made during prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).