Vitronics Corporation v. Conceptronic, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he specification acts as a dictionary when it expressly defines terms used in the claims or when it defines terms by implication.”
• “[W]e look to the words of the claims themselves . . . to define the scope of the patented inven- tion.”
• “[W]e look to the words of the claims themselves, both asserted and nonasserted, to define the scope of the patented invention.”
• although technically extrinsic evidence, dictionaries may be consulted to assist in construing claim terms, \so long as the dictionary definition does not contradict any definition found in or ascertained by a reading of the patent documents\
• capillaries \minimize any discharge of gas\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).