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Claim Terms Are Not Limited by Industry Standard Meaning
Mondaq Business Briefing, October, 2003
The Federal Circuit recently overturned a grant of summary judgment in favor of 3Com, holding that the district court erroneously restricted a claim limitation to the industry standard meaning of a term rather than giving the term its plain, every day meaning. E-Pass Technologies, Inc. v. 3Com Corp., Case No. 02-1593 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2003).
The case involves 3Com's popular "Palm Pilot" personal digital assistants and accusations that it infringes patent claims drawn to the use of an "electronic multi-function card." Based in part on a discussion in the specification, and also on the industry standard usage of the term "card" at the time the patent was issued, the district court interpreted the term "card" to mean a component having the dimensions of a standard...
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