Pall Corporation, Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. Pti Technologies Inc., and Kurabo Industries, Ltd.

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• holding that the relevant inquiry is what one of ordinary skill in the art would believe to have been disclosed by the prior art
• holding that the relevant inquiry is what one of ordinary skill in the art would believe to have been disclosed by the prior art
• explaining that “a narrowing interpretation will be adopted if the accused infringer can demonstrate that the patentee ‘defined’ the claim as ‘excluding’ a broader interpretation ‘with reasonable clarity and deliberateness’ ”
• “It is well established that ‘the prosecution history limits the interpretation of claim terms so as to exclude any interpretation that was disclaimed during prosecution.’”

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