Lexion Medical, LLC v. Northgate Technologies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• preferring “a claim interpretation that harmonizes the various elements of the claim to define a workable invention”
• noting the district court had discretion on remand to permit the parties to submit supplemental expert reports following the Federal Circuit vacating the construction of a patent claim term
• the meaning of a disputed claim term “should be harmonized, to the extent possible, with the intrinsic record, as understood within the technological field of the invention.”
• courts do not determine the customary meaning of claim terms “in a vacuum”
• “The customary meaning of a claim term is not determined in a vacuum and should be harmonized, to the extent pos- sible, with the intrinsic record, as understood within the technological field of the invention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).