{"id":247,"date":"2015-08-27T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:04:00","slug":"avoid-saying-anything-about-the-prior-art-except-how-it-differs-from-the-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Saying Anything About the Prior Art Except How it Differs from the Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Inline Plastics Corp. v. EasyPak, LLC<\/em>, [2014-1305] August 27, 2015, the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s claim construction of “frangible section” as being improperly limited to the preferred embodiment, and therefore reversed the district court’s\u00a0judgment of non-infringement.<\/p>\n

The preferred embodiment of the “frangible section” is described as having a pair of parallel score lines, although an alternative embodiment is described as having a single score line. \u00a0EasyPak argued that the prosecution history supports construing frangible section as requiring at least two score lines, but the Federal Circuit disagreed, \u00a0noting that the\u00a0examiner did not require such\u00a0limitation, and it was not a condition of patentability.<\/p>\n

in distinguishing a prior art reference, the applicant described the prior art as having a single score line, but the Federal Circuit observed that this was not the basis for distinction. \u00a0The Federal Circuit further found that claim differentiation also supported the broader construction of frangible section, because the alternative embodiment specifically\u00a0mentioned a single score line.<\/p>\n

Although all’s well that ends well, the patent applicant’s description of the prior art formed the basis for the iinfringer’s\u00a0claim construction arguments. \u00a0When characterizing and distinguishing prior art, it is probably best not to mention any aspect of the prior art that is not necessary to the basis for distinguishing the prior art.<\/p>\n

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In Inline Plastics Corp. v. EasyPak, LLC, [2014-1305] August 27, 2015, the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s claim construction of “frangible section” as being improperly limited to the preferred embodiment, and therefore reversed the district court’s\u00a0judgment of non-infringement. The … Continue reading →<\/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":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-law","category-patent-prosecution"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}