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· 4/15/1996

Doxsey v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 674 A.2d 1173
  • 1996 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 152

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing district court’s construction, which applied the standard significant figures rounding convention to the claimed percentage; crediting the specification’s disparagement of deviation within the rounding range and construing the term to apply to a narrower range
  • “[E]ven in the absence of a clear and unmistakable disavowal, . . . the prosecution history can be evaluated to determine how a person of ordinary skill would understand a given claim term.”
  • “[A]ny explanation, elaboration, or qualification pre- sented by the inventor during patent examination is rele- vant, for the role of claim construction is to capture the scope of the actual invention that is disclosed, described, and patented.”

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Judges: Colins, Doyle, Kelton

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