V-Formation, Inc. v. Benetton Group Spa

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the black-letter law that an accused product infringes a patent claim only if each and every limitation in the claim appears in the accused product
• noting that prior art references on the face of a patent are intrinsic evidence
• “The district court properly referred to a re- lated, non-binding judicial opinion to support its [claim construction] conclusion in this case.”
• intrinsic record \usually provides the technological and temporal context to enable the court to ascertain the meaning of the claim to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention\
• “The district court properly referred to a re- lated, non-binding judicial opinion to support its [claim construction] conclusion in this case.”
• intrinsic record “usually provides the technological and temporal context to enable 19 the court to ascertain the meaning of the claim to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of invention”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).