Martinez Salas, Magda Narah v. Ex-Parte

How courts have described this case

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• finding that where a term can be found in multiple claims and is accompanied by a modifier in one claim, that modifier should not be read into the unmodified claim
• declining to limit claims to what is thought to be the invention contemplated by the inventors
• declining to limit claims to what is thought to be the invention contemplated by the inventors
• “Reading a [modified version of the spring metal adaptor] limitation into the [unmodified version of the] term ‘spring metal adaptor’ would render these addi- tional modifiers superfluous, which weighs against doing so.”
• “[D]rawings in a patent need not illustrate the full scope of the invention.”
• “While the drawings of the adaptor consistently depict an incomplete circle, drawings in a patent need not illustrate the full scope of the invention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).