MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that court is obligated \to construe as a matter of law the meaning of language used in the patent claim\
• holding that the interpretation of a claim term “is an issue for the judge, not the jury”
• noting that claim construction “ ‘falls somewhere between a pristine legal standard and a simple historical fact’ ”
• “treating [claim] interpret[ion] issues as purely legal will promote (though it will not guarantee
• emphasizing “the importance of uniformity in the treatment of a given patent”
• finding district court erred by admitting expert testimony regarding claim construction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).