{"id":744,"date":"2016-04-05T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2016-04-05T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:05:30","slug":"bri-should-not-depart-from-departure-from-what-the-claim-language-and-specification-so-clearly-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"BRI Should Not Depart from What the Claim Language and Specification so Clearly Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Pride Mobility Products Corporation v, Permobil, Inc.<\/em>, [2015-1585, -1586] (April 5, 2016), the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s construction and cancellation of claim 7, but affirmed cancellation of all the other claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,408,598 and 8,408,343 in\u00a0IPR2013-00407 and\u00a0IPR2013-00411.<\/p>\n

At issue was the claim language\u00a0\u201cmounting plate [that] is substantially planar and is
\noriented perpendicular to the drive wheel axis.\u201d \u00a0The Federal Circuit said it was unreasonable<\/em> to read\u00a0that straightforward language as meaning anything other
\nthan that the drive-wheel axis is perpendicular to the\u00a0surface of the mounting plate that makes the plate substantially\u00a0planar. \u00a0The Federal Circuit explained:<\/p>\n

The claim language says two things about the plate: it\u00a0must be substantially planar, and it must be oriented perpendicular to the drive-wheel axis. The \u201coriented\u201d\u00a0term allows the plate and axis not to be touching: it\u00a0requires that their placement in space must be such that,\u00a0if translated in space without rotation, they would be\u00a0perpendicular. With the axis idealized as a line, perpendicularity\u00a0in the ordinary geometric sense relevant here\u00a0requires that the axis make a right angle with either an\u00a0essentially one-dimensional feature (a line or curve) or an\u00a0essentially two-dimensional feature (a plane or surface) of\u00a0the plate: lines are not \u201cperpendicular\u201d to a three dimensional\u00a0object in any other ordinary geometric sense. \u00a0And the claim tells us exactly what that feature of the three-dimensional plate is: it is the surface that makes\u00a0the plate substantially planar. The claim identifies no\u00a0other feature of the plate. The phrase \u201coriented perpendicular\u00a0to the drive wheel axis\u201d must be read to mean that\u00a0the drive-wheel axis is perpendicular to the mounting plate\u2019s substantially planar surface. We do not see how\u00a0the claim language can mean anything else without\u00a0obvious strain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Federal Circuit said that the Board\u2019s sole basis for its claim construction does
\nnot reasonably support a departure from what the claim\u00a0language and specification so clearly mean. There was no evidence of the\u00a0claim 7 element in the relied-on prior art. Because there\u00a0is no other Board ruling or properly preserved argument\u00a0addressed to this element, the Federal Circuit reversed\u00a0the cancellation of\u00a0claim 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Pride Mobility Products Corporation v, Permobil, Inc., [2015-1585, -1586] (April 5, 2016), the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s construction and cancellation of claim 7, but affirmed cancellation of all the other claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,408,598 and 8,408,343 … 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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipr"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}