York Products, Inc. v. Central Tractor Farm & Family Center and Custom Form Manufacturing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that plurality means “at least two”
• affirming district court construction of the phrase “[s]ubstantially the entire height thereof” as requiring nearly or almost the entire height thereof
• construing \means\ in claim without reference to section 112, paragraph 6
• construing “means” in claim without reference to section 112, paragraph 6
• finding proper a party’s consent to adverse party’s JMOL so it could appeal claim construction order, so as “to expedite its appeal and to conserve both its client’s and the court’s resources”
• “Without an express intent to impart a novel meaning to claim terms, an inventor’s claim terms take on their ordinary meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).