Thorner v. Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “flexible” should be given its plain and ordinary meaning and reversing the construction of “capable of being notice- ably flexed with ease”
• holding that “flexible” should be given its plain and ordinary meaning and reversing the construction of “capable of being noticeably flexed with ease”
• holding that claim terms should be given their ordinary meaning absent a conflicting definition or disavowal
• recognizing that a “patentee is free to choose a broad term and expect to obtain the full scope of its plain and ordinary meaning”
• noting that the only exceptions to words of claims having their plain and ordinary meaning are “1
• explaining that using two terms as alternatives in a patent does not necessarily mean they are synonymous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).