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Parties Involved:
HVAC Technology LLC
Counter-defendant
Southland Industries
Counter-claimant

Document Text:

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Case No. 5:15-cv-02934-PSG

CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HVAC TECHNOLOGY LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

SOUTHLAND INDUSTRIES,

Defendant.

Case No. 5:15-cv-02934-PSG

CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER

Plaintiff HVAC Technology LLC claims that Defendant Southland Industries infringes 

U.S. Patents Nos. 7,444,731 and 7,478,761. Consistent with Pat. L.R. 4-3(c), the parties seek 

construction of terms and phrases in claims in the patents-in-suit.1 The parties appeared for a 

claim construction hearing earlier today.2 To avoid unnecessary delay, the court issues its 

constructions without its full reasoning and analysis:

PATENT NOS. CLAIM TERM/PHRASE CONSTRUCTION

’731 “bracket” “a structure having a body, an arm coupled to the body, a 

support guide located within the arm and configured to provide 

support to a pipe, a base coupled to the body and configured to 

attach to a platform, the base further configured to provide 

support to the body”

’761 “protection bracket” plain and ordinary meaning

’731, ’761 “mounting (in/to) / mounted 

(in/to/on)”

plain and ordinary meaning

 

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See Docket No. 27.

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PATENT NOS. CLAIM TERM/PHRASE CONSTRUCTION

’731 “loading . . . to” “physically attaching . . . to, setting . . . in or on, or engaging . . . 

to or with”

’761 “ventilation flow control unit” plain and ordinary meaning

’731 “HVAC pipe assembly” plain and ordinary meaning

’761 “preassembled / preassembling” plain and ordinary meaning

’731 “positioning / positioning . . . 

proximate to”

plain and ordinary meaning

’731 “transporting surface” plain and ordinary meaning

’761 “riser” plain and ordinary meaning

The parties should rest assured that the court arrived at these constructions with a full 

appreciation of not only the relevant intrinsic evidence, but also the Federal Circuit’s teaching in 

Phillips v. AWH Corp.3and its progeny. So that the parties may pursue whatever recourse they 

believe is necessary, a complete opinion will issue before entry of any judgment.

SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 8, 2016

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PAUL S. GREWAL

United States Magistrate Judge

 

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