Patent claim construction
By: Robert C. Kahrl.
Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Patent practice -- United States.; Legal composition.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The goals of claim construction; title: The historical basis for claim construction; title: Claim construction as a matter of law; title: The hierarchy of sources : intrinsic evidence; title: claims; title: Intrinsic evidence : the specification; title: Intrinsic evidence : the prosecution history; title: The hierarchy of sources : extrinsic evidence; title: Means plus function clauses; title: The doctrine of equivalents; title: Fair notice; title: Statutory construction and claim construction; title: District court claim construction proceedings; title: De novo review by federal circuit on appeal; title: Finality; title: Remand of cases to district courts.