Missouri Electric Cooperatives, D/B/A Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives v. Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander and Returning Government To The People and Todd S. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing because “[t]he board has had two opportunities” to justify its position and “failed”
• \Claim construction must begin with the words of the claims themselves.\ (internal quotations, brackets, and citation omitted)
• \Claim construction must begin with the words of the claims themselves.\ (internal quotation marks, brackets, and citation omitted)
• the patent at issue “strives to eliminate unnecessary components,” so it would be unreasonable to construe a claim term to include a “bulky [component]”
• “Claim construction must begin with the words of the claims themselves.” (internal quotations, brackets, and citation omitted)
• \[C]laim construction must begin with the words of the claims themselves.\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).