SRI Int’l v. Matsushita Elec. Corp. of America

 
APPEAL NO.
84-1637
OP. BELOW
DCT
SUBJECT
Patent
AUTHOR
Markey

Question(s) Presented

“Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment of non-infringement.”

Holding

“We review the district court’s construction of the claims in light of the prosecution history as a question of law and we hold it to have been in error. . . . Focusing exclusively on the way the structure of the Figure 1 embodiment in the specification operates, the district court allowed that focus to control its claim interpretation and its grant of summary judgment. In so doing, it erred.”