Scanner Technologies Corporation v. Icos Vision Systems Corporation, N.V.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that claim construction “begins and ends” with a claim’s actual words
• concluding district court erred in construing “the apparatus comprising: an illumination apparatus” to permit only a single light source
• “The use of the transitional phrase ‘comprising’ ... indicates that the elements or steps following the transition may be supplemented by additional elements or steps and still fall within the scope of the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).