Openwave Systems, Inc. v. Apple Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming district court’s claim construction because it did not read out embodiments
• “The standard for disavowal is exacting, requiring clear and unequivocal evidence that the claimed invention includes or does not include a particular feature.”
• where “the specification [] reveal[s] an intentional disclaimer, or disavowal, of claim scope by the inventor, . . . the inventor’s intention, as expressed in the specification, is regarded as dispositive’
• “To find disavowal, we must find that the specification is both so clear as to show reasonable clarity and deliberateness, and so unmistakable as to be unambiguous evidence of disclaimer.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).