SIMO Holdings, Inc. v. Hong Kong uCloudlink Network Technology Ltd.

 
APPEAL NO.
19-2411
OP. BELOW
DCT
SUBJECT
Patent
AUTHOR
Taranto

Question(s) Presented

“When construing claims of the form ‘a plurality of’ followed by a list of items separated by the word ‘and,’ whether the panel is correct that SuperGuide (which Petitioner contends has been overruled by the en banc Court for the pertinent point) provides for a canon of claim construction compelling the elevation of certain grammatical constructs above the intrinsic record of a patent, particularly where (1) there are other, more reasonable grammatical constructs; (2) invocation of a particular grammatical construct contradicts the specification; and (3) invocation of a particular grammatical construct results in claim scope not supported by the specification.”

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