United States v. Alley

How courts have described this case

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• “It is the issues litigated, not the specific claims around which the issues were framed, that is determinative.”
• when a comparison of adjudicated claims and unadjudicated claims reveals “some differences of a substantive nature,” the court must further analyze the significance of those differences in considering whether collateral es-toppel applies
• When one claim in a patent differs only slightly from another claim, the question of full and fair adjudication should be directed at “issues” common to those claims, not the claims; this will prevent the attempted relitigation of a prior adjudication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).