Opinion ID: 183481
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Step (e)

Text: AMS contends that the district court improperly construed step (e) to require transmitting “in a way that the individual indications and measurements are separately identifiable” based solely on the HAS device and the Defendants’ noninfringement arguments. AMS further argues that the district court’s construction is inappropriate because it confuses “measurement” with the claimed “measurement result.” Defendants argue that the district court did not construe step (e) solely in light of the HAS device, but instead relied on the plain meaning of “each.” We agree with AMS that the district court appears to have conflated the measurement of a percentage and the claimed “measurement result.” Step (e) requires “transmitting each of said measurement results and each of said tamper and error indications to said monitoring station.” We note that this “measurement result” may or may not be the same as the measured “percentage” of step (c). The claim does not require the storage and transmission of “said percentage” but instead introduces a new limitation: “a measurement result.” While the claimed “measurement result” could be the calculated “percentage” it could also be an indicator that the human subject has consumed alcohol or any other result capable of storage and transmission. These are two separate limitations and may or may not include the same information. Therefore, properly construed step (e) should refer not to a “measurement” but instead to a “measurement result.” Regarding the “separately identifiable” language of the district court’s construction, the district court clearly relied on the plain meaning of “each” and not the accused device as AMS alleges. We agree with the district court that the plain meaning of “each” is defined as “being one of two or more distinct individuals having a similar rela11 ALCOHOL MONITORING v. ACTSOFT tion and often constituting an aggregate.” Markman Order at 13 (citing Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 390 (11th ed. 2007)). Thus, step (e) as properly construed requires transmitting every measurement result from step (c) in a way that the measurement results are separately identifiable.”