Tate Access Floors, Inc. And Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc. v. Interface Architectural Resources, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “where claim language is clear we must accord it full breadth even if the result is a claim that is clearly invalid”
• noting that the doctrine is an “anachronistic exception, long mentioned but rarely applied”
• ‘substantial question” means assertion of a defense that patentee cannot prove “lacks substantial merit’
• “there is no ‘practicing the prior art’ defense to literal infringement”
• labeling the reverse doctrine “anachronistic”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).