{"id":1253,"date":"2016-10-05T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-10-01T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:33:04","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does the title have a role in claim construction? \u00a0In<em> Poly-America LP v. GSE Lining Technology Inc.<\/em>, 383 F3d 1303, [72 USPQ2d 1685, 1689] (Fed. Cir. 2004), the Federal Circuit found that the title of the patent in suit (5,763,047) &#8212; Blown-film Textured Liner Having a Smooth Welding Strip &#8212; supported treating the term blown-film in the preamble of the claims as a claim limitation.<\/p>\n<p><em>But, see,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Moore U.S.A., Inc. v. Standard Register Co.<\/em>, 229 F.3d 1091, 1111 [56 USPQ2d 1225] (Fed. Cir. 2000) (\u201c[T]he bar on importing limitations from the written description into the claims applies no less forcefully to a title.\u201d); <em>Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Co.<\/em>, 182 F.3d 1298, 1312 [51 USPQ2d 1161] (Fed. Cir. 1999) (noting patent title&#8217;s\u201cnear irrelevancy\u201d in claim construction).<\/p>\n<div id=\"main_article\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the title have a role in claim construction? \u00a0In Poly-America LP v. GSE Lining Technology Inc., 383 F3d 1303, [72 USPQ2d 1685, 1689] (Fed. Cir. 2004), the Federal Circuit found that the title of the patent in suit (5,763,047) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claim-constructino"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}