Elekta Instrument S.A. v. O.U.R. Scientific International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where a “claim is susceptible of only one reasonable construction, [a court] cannot construe the claim differently from its plain meaning in order to preserve its validity”
• “having concluded that the amended claim is susceptible of only one reasonable construction, we cannot construe the claim differently from its plain meaning in order to preserve its validity”
• “Claims that have been narrowed in order to obtain issuance over prior art cannot later be interpreted to cover that which was previously disclaimed during prosecution.”
• claims should be construed so as to give effect to all limitations therein
• claim language “only within a zone ex- tending between latitudes 30˚–45˚” does not read on a de- vice with radiation sources extending between 14˚–43˚ because “[a]ny other conclusion renders the reference to 30 degrees superfluous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).