Jack A. Ekchian v. The Home Depot, Inc., MacKlanburg Company, Mti Corporation and Zircon Corporation, and Lucas Automation & Control Engineering, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the courts and the public may rely on an information disclosure statement to interpret a claim
• explaining that, by “distinguishing the claimed invention over the prior art, an applicant is indicating what the claims do not cover”
• noting that “the courts and the public may rely” on an information disclosure statement to interpret the claims.
• refusing to limit claim where IDS did not distinguish over prior art with respect to the relevant property
• “since, by distinguishing the claimed invention over the prior art, an applicant is indicating what the claims do not cover, he is by implication surrendering such protection”
• “[B]y distinguishing the claimed invention over the prior art, an applicant is indicating what the claims do not cover.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).