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Intellectual Property

Aug. 27, 2005

'Phillips' Sends Patent Claim Construction Back to Future

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By William J. O'Brien - Phillips v. AWH Corp. , 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 13954 (July 12), provides the most important pronouncement on patent claim construction in at least the past seven years. Sitting en banc, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reassessed the fundamental rules governing where and how to find the meaning of patent claims.

        
        
Focus Column

Intellectual Property

By William J. O'Brien

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