Rosario Duran, Victor Gabriel v. First Bank Puerto Rico

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that equitable “intervening rights ... apply as a matter of judicial discretion to mitigate liability”
• analogizing to cases in- volving patents with specifications referring to “the present invention.”
• construction of a term which renders claims meaningless is appropriate “only where a contrary construction is ‘dictated’ — i.e., compelled — by the written description or prosecution history”
• “Where a particular construction of an independent claim would nullify claims that depend from it, the doctrine of claim differentiation creates a presumption that such a construction is improper.”
• “[polypropylene [in the accused products] is not a filler”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).