Wms Gaming Inc. v. International Game Technology

How courts have described this case

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• “To prove literal infringement, the patentee must show that the accused device con tains every limitation in the asserted claims. If even one limitation is missing or not met as claimed, there is no literal infringement.”
• “In a means-plus-function claim in which the disclosed structure is a computer, or microprocessor programmed to carry out an algorithm, the disclosed structure is not the general purpose computer, but rather the special purpose computer programmed to perform the disclosed algorithm”
• courts must consider “objective evidence presented by the patentee ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).