Karen Molina Thompson v. John Deere Construction & Forestry Company and Deere Credit Services, Inc. D/B/A John Deere Financial

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “positioned” describes where the “means is located and is a separate limitation not subject to section 112, paragraph 6[.]”
• holding that means-plus-function claim construction is limited to language that described what the function is and does not extend to other language, such as language describing where the means is located
• “Construction of [a means-plus-function] ■ limitation requires the court to first identify the function of the means-plus-function limitation.”
• “[N]ext [the court must] identify the corresponding structure in the written description necessary to perform that function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).