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natural phenomena, or abstract ideas is not patenteligible.
Corp. v. Active Network, Inc., 790 F.3d 1343, 1346 (Fed.
1343, 1349 (Fed. Cir. 2017).
abstract concept long utilized to transmit information. Cf.
machine-readability is directed to an abstract concept).
be combined to form a composite drawing of a face.” J.A.
27 (col. 1 ll. 37–43).
which the patent laws were designed to protect.”).
patent is not directed to otherwise eligible subject matter.
(encoding and decoding) does not render the claim nonabstract.
encoding process recited by the claims.” Appellant’s Op.
computers are invoked merely as a tool.” Id. at 1336.
’303 patent claims are directed to an abstract idea.
a patent-eligible application. McRO, 837 F.3d at 1312.
they use a mathematical formula. Diehr, 450 U.S. at 187.
forms of data cannot save it.
the invention can be practiced verbally or with a telephone.
J.A. 28 (col. 4 ll. 59–63); J.A. 32 (col. 11 ll. 53–59).
to take an abstract idea and apply it with a computer.
134 S. Ct. at 2357.
request for a permanent injunction against Everlight.
that it failed to prove the patents invalid. We affirm.
Inc., 754 F.3d 952, 961 (Fed. Cir. 2014).
court’s finding that the accused products meet this limitation.
problems, and propose dissimilar solutions. Id. at *51–53.
Bosch LLC v. Pylon Mfg. Corp., 659 F.3d 1142, 1149 (Fed.
1379 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (internal quotation marks omitted).
A permanent injunction is an equitable remedy.
Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, 456 U.S. 305, 311 (1982).
(1933) and Consol. Canal Co. v. Mesa Canal Co., 177 U.S.
the contrary, carefully weighing both parties’ evidence.
rather than directly to customers, as Nichia does.” Id.
a categorical rule that licenses preclude irreparable harm.
The Weinberger case does not enumerate a four factor test for consideration in granting a permanent injunction. In fact, the Weinberger case was not strictly about the grant of a permanent injunction because the ultimate merits were to be resolved in the permit application. The decision in eBay v. MercExchange about the presence of a four factor test for permanent injunctions may have unintended consequences. In ZEN INVESTMENTS, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37171 (decided June 2, 2006), the court noted: "The Third Circuit has been unsettled n5 on whether a plaintiff must prove irreparable harm to receive a permanent injunction, as opposed to a preliminary injunction which always requires a showing of irreparable harm." The eBay decision squarely brings back "irreparable harm" into the permanent injunction calculus without giving much guidance on how to evaluate irreparable harm. The immediate impact will be more uncertainty.
a case that does not even mention the irreparable injury rule. Weinberger itself is about undue hardship and deference to the military. Each of these cases is cited in a different section of this Article; they have almost nothing in common except the phrase "irreparable injury." Hecht does not even have that; Hecht denied an injunction on the ground that it would be futile. The Court miscited it in Weinberger. Perhaps the law clerk assumed that any case that denied an injunction and mentioned discretion must have been an irreparable injury case.
Thus, the cases cited in the Weinberger decision, which was utilized to justify eBay v. MercExchange, don't really justify the proposition about "repeatedly held that the basis for injunctive relief is ...." Further, there is no four-facter list enumerated in the Weinberger case. Arguably, Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, 456 U.S. 305, 311 (1982) taught that an injunction will not "'restrain an act the injurious consequences of which are merely trifling'" (quoting Consolidated Canal Co. v. Mesa Canal Co., 177 U.S. 296, 302 (1900)), an issue quite distinct from that faced in eBay v. MercExchange.
Although the unanimous decision in eBay is characterized as a narrow decision reiterating previous law, it has the possibility of creating more uncertainty in the area of the application of the concept of "irreparable injury" to the calculus for permanent injunctions.
Considering that the Thomas opinion cites the still valid 1908 Continental Paper case against the reasoning of the district court eBay opinion, the analysis of the four factors made by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in this case might still be valid, and a permanent injunction might still issue. So, ironically, for all the smoke, MercExchange may still get its permanent injunction and we may almost obtain "business as usual" in the use of permanent injunctions in patent law, even as greater uncertainty is injected into other areas.
There seems to be a mural in Chicago that was based on something from Pinterest, with the mural done without crediting the original source.
The quotation below (from cw33) suggests that credit, rather than money, may be the primary driver in this dispute.
Devins says he wasn't aware of the art student's work until someone mentioned it to him. Devins also says he was inspired when he saw a picture on Pinterest -- a picture that just so happened to be that of Mesfin's work.
"How can you just steal someone's artwork... Someone's hard work and claim it like it's yours. It’s one thing to share or even profit from someone's work but to claim it as yours is just wrong!"
The left stair section of the current Court of Claims building is "where" the entrance to the home of Secretary of State Seward was located in 1865. On April 14, 1865, Louis Powell, aka Lewis Payne, attempted to assassinate Seward, and severely disfigured Seward's face. The house, previously known as the “Club-House,” was the vicinity wherein Dan Sickles (later the commanding general of III Corps at Gettysburg) murdered his wife’s lover, Philip Barton Key, and was acquitted by use of the first successful use of the temporary insanity defense, with the defense done by Edwin Stanton, later Secretary of War. Stanton was the lead lawyer in a reaper patent case, the one time Abraham Lincoln got close to a patent litigation.
On-line paraphrasing software and "word salads"
Some other clues [that work was paraphrased]: A paper includes unusual strings of works — “word salads” — where the phrases don’t make sense; or a reliance on only older references, without anything related to more current thinking.
…it may be perfectly acceptable and expected to have some old references in some papers referring to seminal works, or when updating concepts or historical retrospectives. However if there is a reliance on older publications without any reference to current thinking or research (particularly where the references are not highly cited/regarded) it may be worth doing a little more digging.
it might be splendidly worthy and anticipated that would have some old references in a few papers alluding to original works, or when refreshing ideas or authentic reviews. Nonetheless if there is a dependence on more seasoned distributions with no reference to momentum thinking or research (especially where the references are not exceedingly refered to/respected) it might be worth doing somewhat more burrowing.
Duke University v. Biomarin. Duke saves two claims on appeal.
IPR against a university, and the university appealing an unfavorable result to the CAFC.
(“IPR”) holding claims 1–9, 11, 12, 15, and 18–21 of U.S.
S. Ct. 2131, 2142 (2016) (quoting 37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b)).
Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc., 789 F.3d 1292, 1297 (Fed. Cir.
2015) (citing Teva Pharm. USA Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., 135 S.
exclusively a precursor of hGAA.
a precursor of rhGAA produced in CHO cell cultures.
See Board Decision, 2015 WL 1009196, at *12.
Board’s finding that claim 9 was anticipated.
it rests on cursory and conclusory expert testimony.
claim 19.” Rehearing Decision, 2015 WL 4467381, at *4.
immunosuppressants according to the expert’s testimony.
a petitioner cannot employ mere conclusory statements.
to render claim 19 obvious.
805 F.3d 1064, 1074 (Fed. Cir. 2015)).
reference to be enabled for purposes of anticipation”).
Certain "inventions" garner much publicity, such as the work of John Kanzius on treating cancer and "burning salt water", which made its way to "60 Minutes" in 2008 after much discussion in 2007. BUT "where we are now" is not exactly the place envisioned by "60 Minutes." A brief review of some events since 2007 is given and the key patent application, after many years of prosecution, was allowed to go abandoned in 2014.
Last winter, inventor John Kanzius was already attempting one seemingly impossible feat-building a machine to cure cancer with radio waves-when his device inadvertently succeeded in another: He made saltwater catch fire. TV footage of his bizarre discovery (check out the video below) has been burning up the blogosphere ever since, drawing crackpots and Ph.D.s alike into a raging debate. Can water burn? And if so, what good can come of it?
Some people gush over the invention's potential for desalinization or cheap energy. Briny seawater, after all, sloshes over most of the planet's surface, and harnessing its heat energy could power all sorts of things. Skeptics say Kanzius's radio generator is sucking up far more energy than it's creating, making it a carnival trick at best.
There were many issues with the "60 Minutes" piece, which were raised at the time, but largely ignored.
Systems and methods for processing salt water and/or solutions containing salt water with RF energy. Exemplary systems and methods may use RF energy to combust salt water, to produce hydrogen from salt water or solutions containing salt water, to volatilize a secondary fuel present in solutions containing salt water, to produce and combust hydrogen obtained from salt water or solutions containing salt water, to volatilize and combust secondary fuel sources present in solutions containing salt water, to desalinate seawater, and/or to carry out the electrolysis of water are presented. An exemplary system may comprise a reservoir for containing a salt water solution or salt water mixture; a reaction chamber having an inlet; a feed line operatively connecting the reservoir to the inlet of the reaction chamber; an RF transmitter having an RF generator in circuit communication with a transmission head, the RF generator capable of generating an RF signal absorbable by the salt water solution or the salt water mixture having a frequency for transmission via the transmission head; and an RF receiver; wherein the reaction chamber is positioned such that some of the salt water solution or salt water mixture is positioned between the RF transmission head and the RF receiver.
Some Kanzius patent applications , concerning US 20070250139.
Q What is happening with research at Pennsylvania State University about using the device to "burn" saltwater? There has been debate on the subject that it takes more energy to heat the saltwater than the chemical reaction releases.
A Everyone says it's all about "energy in, energy out" but (Rustum Roy, a Penn State professor who is leading saltwater-to-energy research on the device) said it costs $1.35 to make a gallon of ethanol and nobody complains about that and the fact it has more carbon releases in it than gasoline. Everyone says this is green. This is the way to go. (Roy) said, "Wouldn't you rather have something that gives off pure drinking water as a by-product and may be nearly as efficient as ethanol?"
If you got the idea that Kanzius didn't answer the question, you are right. It would take more energy (which, in the US, comes mostly from fossil fuels) to make the electricity to make the hydrogen than one gets out of the hydrogen. That's a net negative.
Mass confusion on burning water?
Skedco, Inc. (“Skedco”) is the exclusive licensee of U.S.
from that judgment. We vacate and remand.
controller and the pump and valve structures in the BPS.
154 F. Supp. 3d at 1111–12. We hold that this was error.
being “in fluid communication with” an internal valve.
fact, the claims expressly contemplate this possibility.
Br. 20–21. This approach gets our precedent backwards.
define the scope of the patent right.” Laitram Corp v.
in order to claim them. See CCS Fitness, Inc. v.
Brunswick Corp., 288 F.3d 1359, 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
Dickinson & Co., 474 F.3d 1323, 1333 (Fed. Cir. 2007).
additional limitations into claim 18.
finding the “diffuser” limitation obvious.
independent claims 1 and 32 of Synopsys’ U.S. Patent No.
Su anticipated claim 32. Synopsys appeals to our court.
“optimal placement” of hard blocks.
Was the CRISPR interference outcome foreseeable?
** US 8,945,839 issued on February 3, 2015. A "Track I" request had been made on 18 April 2014. A final rejection was issued on 18 Nov. 2014, with claims 1-28 rejected as anticipated over Jinek, WO'772 (later identified as Doudna). There was an issue of whether or not the priority documents to WO 2013/176772 supported the later disclosure. In this, there was an issue that the patent applicant had presented only arguments of counsel, with the examiner citing to In re Huang, 100 F.3d 136, 139 (CAFC 1996 ) and In re De Blauwe, 736 F.2d 699, 705 (CAFC 1984 ). Applicant brought up arguments made to the EPO about a Jinek journal publication, which were not of interest to the USPTO.
Also, in an evaluation of patentability of Zhang's claims, the full scope of disclosure of the Jinek/Doudna reference was considered, but in an interference one compares only the claims. It was unlikely that the PTO would have altered its position of Doudna v. Zhang in the later (interference) proceeding. Whether this was the correct scientific outcome can be debated.
As to the text -- that CRISPR basically uses the same process for viruses and eukaryotic cells, --, CRISPR-Cas systems protect prokaryotes FROM viruses. The legal determination of "no interference-in-fact" stemmed from the conclusion that Zhang's claims were patentable over Doudna's because one of ordinary skill did not have a reasonable expectation of success in going from Doudna's prokaryotes to Zhang's eukaryotes. Supporting facts arose from statements made by Jinek and Doudna expressing doubt about the transition. As to the future of UC's patent claims, there may be some issues as to enablement of the full scope of the claims, especially in light of BOTH the issuance of the Zhang patent AND the interference result.
from the process it challenges.
omitted). The logic of the Board’s analysis is wanting.
the standards with a reasonable expectation of success.
“maintain a communication session” limitation.
under § 103(a) in view of TEA1401T and Balakrishnan.
of this court’s mandate in Power Integrations.
continuing an appeal in light of § 317(b)).
and the time to petition for a writ of certiorari has passed.
action in which it failed to meet its burden.
More on The Medicines Company v. Mylan, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 5947. Reverse doctrine of equivalents?
The case The Medicines Company v. Mylan, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 5947, is unusual in several respects. Although a counterclaim of invalidity had been lodged, the question of invalidity was not reached, even though there were significant questions of indefiniteness and functional claiming.
1. Pharmaceutical batches of a drug product comprising bivalirudin . . . wherein the batches have a pH adjusted by a base, said pH is about 5-6 when reconstituted in an aqueous solution for injection, and wherein the batches have a maximum impurity level of Asp9-bivalirudin that does not exceed about 0.6% as measured by HPLC.
Although functional limitations in patent claims are not per se objectionable even when the means-plus-function format is not invoked,6 they cannot be "so broad that [they] cause the claim to have a potential scope of protection beyond that which is justified by the specification disclosure." In re Swinehart, 439 F.2d 210, 213, 58 C.C.P.A. 1027 (C.C.P.A. 1971). Here, Medicines' construction would [*23] expand the scope of "efficient mixing" to cover any way of mixing that achieves a compounding solution having an Asp9 level of less than 0.6 percent. The patentee's construction of "efficient mixing" thus attempts to claim all solutions to the identified "impurities" problem, without describing the entire range of solutions to that problem. Medicines' construction is therefore not permissible. See Ariad Pharms., Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 598 F.3d 1336, 1352-53 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (en banc) ("Such claims merely recite a description of the problem to be solved while claiming all solutions to it and . . . cover any [solution] later actually invented and determined to fall within the claim's functional boundaries—leaving it to [others] to complete an unfinished invention."); see also Bayer Crop Science AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC, 728 F.3d 1324, 1330-31 (Fed. Cir. 2013). Rather, efficient mixing must be defined in terms of the particular process or processes identified in the specification.
There is no contention here that the claims are means-plus-function claims governed by 35 U.S.C. § 112(f) (formerly 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 6).
In the first half of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court made explicit its objection to functional claims. The Court invalidated a series of patent claims on the grounds that the claims were overbroad because they only recited the functional properties of technology that an inventor had produced and thus were not limited to an inventor's actual invention. n109 As [*1428] a mid-twentieth-century patent treatise noted: "It is possible that a claim for all means of arriving at a desired result would be broad enough to cover later discovered means wholly independent of the first means for arriving at the same final result. In that case, the inventor would be over-protected." n110 In this passage, "means" is code for a technology with particular structural properties, and "a desired result" is a functional property.
** As to Cardinal Chemical, the latitude for not entertaining invalidity questions is narrow, and not consistent with the facts of Mylan, wherein invalidity was the bigger issue.
Having found non-infringement in favor of Medrad, L-F argues that the Court should dismiss Medrad's invalidity and unenforceability counterclaims as moot. (Doc. No. 276, p.9). Medrad, on the other hand, argues that this Court does not have the authority to dismiss its invalidity and unenforceability counterclaims as moot because, according to Medrad, the United States Supreme Court has held that a finding of non-infringement does not moot an invalidity counterclaim. See Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton Int'l., Inc., 508 U.S. 83, 124 L. Ed. 2d 1, 113 S. Ct. 1967 (1993). (Doc. No. 274).
In Cardinal Chemical, the Supreme Court rejected the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely vacating declaratory judgments of invalidity as moot when it affirmed a district court's determination of non-infringement. 508 U.S. at 102-03. The Court concluded that an appellate court's affirmation of a district court's non-infringement ruling did not affect the appellate court's power to review the invalidity issue. 508 U.S. at 98. Furthermore, the Court observed that there were strong public policy and practical reasons for addressing the issue of invalidity regardless of the outcome of the question of infringement. 508 U.S. at 102-01. Thus, the Court ruled that HN1Go to this Headnote in the case.the Federal Circuit should not automatically vacate a district court's ruling of invalidity as moot based solely on a finding of non-infringement. 508 U.S. at 103-04.
In rejecting the Federal Circuit's practice we acknowledge that factors in an unusual case might justify that court's refusal to reach the merits of a validity determination -- a determination which it might therefore be appropriate to vacate. A finding of non-infringement alone, however, does not justify such a result. Nor does anything else in the record of this case. The two patents at issue here have been the subject of three separate lawsuits, and both parties have urged the Federal Circuit to resolve their ongoing dispute over the issue of validity; it would be an abuse of discretion not to decide that question in this case.
3 Confusion over the ultimate holding of Cardinal Chemical stems, in part, from the following statement that appears in the case: "[the invalidity counterclaim] did not become moot when [the appellate] court affirmed the finding of non-infringement". Cardinal Chemical, 508 U.S. 98, 124 L. Ed. 2d 1, 113 S. Ct. 1967. This statement's meaning, however, is only apparent when read in the context of the entire opinion. The statement appears in the section of the opinion in which the Court concludes that a controversy continues to exist for the purpose of establishing jurisdiction until a court is made aware of a change in circumstances that eliminates the controversy. Id. Because no such change of circumstances had occurred in Cardinal Chemical, the Court concluded that the appellate court had the power (i.e., jurisdiction) to review the invalidity issue. Id. The statement's inclusion in a discussion of jurisdiction indicates that the Court was referring to jurisdictional mootness. See Morton Int'l, Inc. v. Cardinal Chemical Co., 967 F.2d 1571, 1574 (Fed. Cir. 1992)(Nies, C.J. dissenting)("'Mootness' is jurisdictional when the dispute between the parties, or at least an issue in the case, no longer exists. That is, the issue no longer presents an actual case or controversy. If an issue is moot in this sense, a court has no discretion but must dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. (citations omitted)").
The ultimate holding of the Cardinal Chemical case was that in the case.dismissing an invalidity counterclaim as moot based a finding of non-infringement alone and in the absence of any other factors justifying the refusal to reach the merits of a validity determination was an abuse of discretion, implying that if appropriate factors exist, an invalidity counterclaim may be moot. Cardinal Chemical, 508 U.S. at 102-03. This type of mootness is referred to as prudential mootness. See Morton, 967 F.2d at 1574. ("An issue is also said to be 'mooted' when a court, having decided one dispositive issue, chooses not to address another equally dispositive issue. In this sense, mootness means only that a decision on another issue would have no practical significance. This type of mootness results from prudential, not jurisdictional, considerations." (citations omitted)).
The issue of whether a district court, versus an appellate court, may dismiss an invalidity counterclaim as moot following a finding of non-infringement was addressed in Phonometrics, Inc. v. Northern Telecom Inc., 133 F.3d 1459 (Fed. Cir. 1998). In that case, the plaintiff patent owner brought an action against various manufacturers and sellers of telephone equipment alleging infringement of its patent. Id. at 1461-63. The defendants counterclaimed seeking a declaratory judgment for non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability of the patent. Id. The district court ruled in favor of the defendants on the issue of non-infringement and dismissed their invalidity and unenforceability counterclaims as moot. The plaintiff appealed both the finding of non-infringement and the dismissal of the defendants' counterclaims, arguing it had a "general interest in a judicial determination of its patent's validity." Id. at 1468.
We have previously held that a district court has discretion to dismiss a counterclaim alleging that a patent is invalid as moot where it finds no infringement. See Nestier Corp. v. Menasha Corp.-Lewisystems Div., 739 F.2d 1576, 1580-81, 222 USPQ 747, 751 (Fed. Cir. 1984)("There was no reversible error or abuse of discretion . . . in the District Court's withholding of judgment on the issues related to the . . . patent's validity -- despite the jury's having found the patent not invalid -- in light of the jury's finding of non-infringement."); see also Leesona Corp. v. United States, 208 Ct.Cl. 871, 530 F.2d 896, 906 n. 9, 185 USPQ 156, 163 n. 9 (adopted as opinion of Court of Claims at 208 Ct.Cl. 871, 530 F.2d 896, 192 USPQ 672 (1976))("While the better practice is to treat both the validity and infringement issues . . . it is not always necessary to do so. Where, as here, noninfringement is clear and invalidity is not plainly evident it is appropriate to treat only the infringement issue." (citations omitted)).
The Supreme Court's decision in Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton International, 508 U.S. 83, 113 S. Ct. 1967, 124 L. Ed. 2d 1, 26 USPQ2d 1721 (1993), does not preclude this discretionary action by the district court. Cardinal Chemical simply prohibits us, as an intermediate appellate court, from vacating a judgment of invalidity when we conclude that a patent has not been infringed, and therefore has no bearing on the district court's actions in this case.
Under Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton Int'l, Inc., 508 U.S. 83, 99, 113 S. Ct. 1967, 124 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1993), a finding of noninfringement cannot moot a counterclaim of invalidity, but we retain the discretion to limit the grounds upon which appeals are decided. Here, because Mylan has agreed that a judgment of noninfringement with respect to both patents in suit "would be tantamount to the relief sought on the merits" and that we need not reach the invalidity issues, we decline to reach the merits of Mylan's invalidity contentions. See Old Town Canoe Co. v. Confluence Holdings Corp., 448 F.3d 1309, 1318 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 2006).
A claim is indefinite if its legal scope is not clear enough that a person of ordinary skill in the art could determine whether a particular composition infringes or not."); Morton Int'l, Inc. v. Cardinal Chem. Co., 5 F.3d 1464, 1470 (Fed. Cir. 1993) ("[C]laims. . . [must be] sufficiently precise to permit a [*16] potential competitor to determine whether or not he is infringing.").
But the Mylan case is manifestly about infringement/not validity.
We conclude that one of ordinary skill in the art would rely on Example 5 to ascertain the metes and bounds of "efficiently mixing." As the only embodiment of efficient mixing, Example 5 is "highly indicative of the scope of the claims." Johns Hopkins Univ. v. CellPro, Inc., 152 F.3d 1342, 1355 (Fed. Cir. 1998).8 Example 5, however, is not merely the only disclosed embodiment of efficient mixing—it is the only description of efficient mixing in the patents in suit that casts light on what efficient mixing is and that enables one of ordinary skill in the art to achieve the objects of the claimed invention. Although the specification provides that Example 5 is "non-limiting," e.g., '727 patent, col. 16 l. 6, no other part of the patents' written description sufficiently teaches the affirmative steps that constitute efficient mixing. In this circumstance, we think it entirely appropriate to limit the term "efficiently mixing" to the sole portion of the specification that adequately discloses "efficient mixing" to the public. See Alloc, Inc. v. ITC, 342 F.3d 1361, 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2003); SciMed Life Sys., Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Sys., Inc., 242 F.3d 1337, 1344-45 (Fed. Cir. 2001).
this court recognizes that in the case.it must interpret the claims in light of the specification, Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 52 F.3d 967, 979 (Fed. Cir. 1995) (en banc), aff'd 517 U.S. 370, 134 L. Ed. 2d 577, 116 S. Ct. 1384 (1996), yet avoid impermissibly importing limitations from the specification. Comark Communications v. Harris Corp., 156 F.3d 1182, 1186 (Fed. Cir. 1998). That balance turns on how the specification characterizes the claimed invention. Sunrace Roots Enter. Co., LTD v. SRAM Corp., 336 F.3d 1298, 1305 (Fed. Cir. 2003). In this respect, this court looks to whether the specification refers to a limitation only as a part of less than all possible embodiments or whether the specification read as a whole suggests that the very character of the invention requires the limitation be a part of every embodiment. For example, it is impermissible to read the one and only disclosed embodiment into a claim without other indicia that the patentee so intended to limit the invention. [**20] Teleflex, Inc. v. Ficosa N. Am. Corp., 299 F.3d 1313, 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2002). On the other hand, where the specification makes clear at various points that the claimed invention is narrower than the claim language might imply, it is entirely permissible and proper to limit the claims. SciMed Life Sys., Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Sys., Inc., 242 F.3d 1337, 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2001).
The net effect of our claim construction is that to infringe either the '727 patent or the '343 patent, infringing batches must be compounded using a process that employs the efficient mixing conditions of Example 5. See Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz, Inc., 566 F.3d 1282, 1291-95 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (en banc). Under this claim construction, Mylan's ANDA does not infringe the asserted claims since is undisputed that, for example, Mylan does not use multiple mixing devices as required by Example 5.
One wonders if what happened in the Mylan case, as referenced to the Alloc case, is simply the "reverse doctrine of equivalents" masquerading under a different name. Without invoking the narrowed claim construction, one says simply that Mylan obtained the Asp9-bivalirudin level in a different way than taught by the patentee.
Separately, lurking in the background, is the problem that it might seem the CAFC limited the '727 claim to preserve its validity as to a written description/enablement attack. BUT the court will not re-write claims in order to preserve their validity. See Pfizer, Inc. v. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., 457 F.3d 1284, 1292 (Fed. Cir. 2006).
On the record, it might seem patentee intended a broad scope for "efficient mixing." And, validity was not at issue in the Mylan case, as decided.
Confederate cannon fire, which disabled no gunboat.
Was Medicines v. Mylan, in effect, a reverse doctrine of equivalents case?
One wonders if the net result of Medicines Company v. Mylan was simply an application of the reverse doctrine of equivalents, by another name?
Example 4. Medicines, 2013 WL 6633085, at *9.
[W]here a device is so far changed in principle from a patented article that it performs the same or a similar function in a substantially different way, but nevertheless falls within the literal words of the claim, the doctrine of equivalents may be used to restrict the claim and defeat the patentee's action for infringement.
Apple Inc., did not infringe any of the asserted claims.
omitting Apple’s proposed text from the claim construction.
structure described in the specification or its equivalents.
934 (Fed. Cir. 1987) (en banc).
selection decision in order to solve the prior art problem.
must have the capability to make channel selection decisions.

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