In Re Scott E. Johnston

How courts have described this case

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

• “Optional elements do not narrow the claim because they can always be omitted.”
• for a claim that specified that a “wall may be smooth, corrugated, or profiled, stating that, “[a]s a matter of linguistic precision, optional elements do not narrow the claim because they can always be omitted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).