Lighting World, Inc. v. Birchwood Lighting, Inc., Defendant-Cross

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[t]he district judge is in a far better position to assess [litigation misconduct] than we are”
• noting that either a “generic structural term” or a “coined term” can invoke § 112(f)
• finding “connector” to be a name for structure “defined in terms of the function it performs”
• finding that since the issue had not been litigated prior to judgment, “the district court was justified in not requiring a full trial on the issue of inequitable conduct as part of the attorney fee motion or in entering detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law”
• “The task of determining whether the limitation in question should be regarded as a means-plus-function limitation, like all claim construction issues, is a question of law....”
• “The task of determining whether the limitation in question should bé regarded as a means-plus-function limitation ... is a question on which evidence from experts may be relevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).