Tower Hotel, LLC v. City of Miami

How courts have described this case

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• discussing that the trade-off of using functional language to claim an invention is the requirement for disclosing specific structure within the specification to accomplish the function
• explaining that § 112 ¶ 6 requires only “some link be- tween a generic structural reference and a claimed func- tion” understandable to a person of skill in the art
• refusing to treat prosecution history’s reference to existing patent’s use of digital-to-digital conversion as linking software for that purpose to claimed function where history made no reference to software as such
• noting that means-plus-function patents require “[precision in claiming”
• “The question of what a reference teaches and whether it describes every element of a claim is a question for the finder of fact.”
• “The question of what a reference teaches and whether it describes every element of a claim is a question for the finder of fact.”

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