{"id":1483,"date":"2017-03-21T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2017-03-25T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T01:27:51","slug":"patent-owner-cannot-create-new-claim-construction-issues-after-the-jury-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Patent Owner Cannot Create New Claim Construction Issues After the Jury Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>TVIIM, LLC v. McAfee, Inc.<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1562.Opinion.3-17-2017.1.PDF\">[2016-1562]<\/a>\u00a0(March 21, 2017), the Federal Circuit\u00a0affirmed jury verdicts that U.S. Patent No.<br \/>\n6,889,168 was invalid and not infringed because substantial evidence supported the jury\u2019s\u00a0findings, and the\u00a0district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a new\u00a0trial.<\/p>\n<p>TVIIM argued that the jury rendered\u00a0an inconsistent verdict of infringement and invalidity\u00a0because the claim terms \u201cas a result of\/in response to,\u201d\u00a0\u201cvarious utility functions,\u201d and \u201creporting the discovered<br \/>\nvulnerabilities\u201d have more than one ordinary meaning. \u00a0However, the Federal Circuit noted that TVIIM did not seek construction of any of the terms, and never asserted that the terms had multiple meanings. \u00a0The Federal Circuit said that\u00a0TVIIM cannot be allowed to create a new claim construction\u00a0dispute following the close of the jury trial. \u00a0THe Federal Circuit went on to find that substantial evidence supported the jury verdict.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In TVIIM, LLC v. McAfee, Inc., [2016-1562]\u00a0(March 21, 2017), the Federal Circuit\u00a0affirmed jury verdicts that U.S. Patent No. 6,889,168 was invalid and not infringed because substantial evidence supported the jury\u2019s\u00a0findings, and the\u00a0district court did not abuse its discretion in denying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1483\">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-1483","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\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}