Middleton, Inc. v. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (Now Known as 3m Company)

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the most important indicator of the meaning of [a term] is its usage and 25 context within the claim itself”
• reversing district court’s construction of the term “uniform” as the “same thickness throughout, except that normal manufacturing tolerances are allowed.”
• noting for disclaimer to apply, it must be found in the intrinsic evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).