Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Cellco Partnership

How courts have described this case

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

• “When the district court reviews only evidence intrinsic to the patent . . . , the judge’s determination will amount solely to a determination of law, and [we] review that construction de novo.” (quoting Teva, 135 S. Ct. at 841)
• “{T]he interested public has the right to rely on the inventor’s statements made during prosecution, without attempting to decipher whether the examiner relied on them, or how much weight they were given.”
• “The terms used in patent claims are not construed in the abstract, but in the context in which the term was presented and used by the patentee, as it would have been understood by a person of ordinary skill in the field of the invention on reading the patent documents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).