· 1/8/1999
Key Pharmaceuticals v. Hercon Laboratories Corporation
Citations
- 161 F.3d 709
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that “the function of an appellate court is to correct errors committed at trial”
- noting that “the function of an appellate court is to correct errors committed at trial”
- explaining that a determination of anticipation or obviousness involves construction of the claim (a question of law for the court
- noting similarity in operation and purpose of invited error and judicial estoppel in “prohibit[ing] a party from asserting as 'error’ a position that it had advocated at the trial”
- “We do not take our task lightly in this regard, as we recognize the national stare decisis effect that this court’s decisions on claim construction have.”
- “Instead, as noted by the ALJ by reference to dictionary definitions, ‘detector’ had a well-known meaning to those skilled in the electrical arts connotative of structure[.]”
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Judges: Mayer, Plager, Clevenger
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