Masco Corporation v. United States, and Mosler, Inc. And Hamilton Products Group, Inc., Third Party and Mas-Hamilton Group, Inc., Third Party

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “method claims are commonly drafted ... by reciting the phrase ‘steps of followed by a list of actions comprising the method claimed”
• providing that issue preclusion bars “relitigation in a sec- ond suit of issues actually litigated and determined in [a] first suit”
• holding such intrinsic evidence to be “the most significant source of the legally operative meaning of disputed claim language”
• looking to a mechanical engineering dictionary and a regular unabridged dictionary to determine whether “transmitting” is an act
• relying on a standard mechanical engineering dictionary definition of “transmitting” to help determine whether it is an act
• relying on standard unabridged dictionary definition of “transmitting” to help determine whether it is an act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).