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· 8/15/2001

Generation II Orthotics Inc. And Generation II USA Inc. v. Medical Technology Inc. (Doing Business as Bledsoe Brace Systems)

Citations

  • 263 F.3d 1356
  • 59 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1919
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 18420
  • 2001 WL 914557

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  • stating that “there is a presumption that ... limitations are not subject to section 112, paragraph 6” when they do not use the words “means for” or “step for”
  • warning against “importing a characteristic of a disclosed or preferred embodiment into [the] term”
  • a proposed claim construction must not “revise or ignore the explicit language of the claims.”
  • a claim construction must not “revise or ignore the explicit language of the claims.”
  • a construction should not “revise or ignore the explicit language of the claims.”
  • “[C]laims can only be construed to preserve their validity where the proposed claim construction is ‘practicable,’ is based on sound claim construction principles, and does not revise or ignore the explicit language of the claims.”

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Judges: Newman, Linn, Dyk

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