JD Supra

Prediction: “Plain and Ordinary Meaning” Is Not Particularly Plain or Ordinary

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, finding errors in claim construction, overturned a jury verdict of infringement and affirmed a district court summary judgment determination that the ...
JD Supra

“Plain and Ordinary Meaning” Must Be Tethered to Invention Described in Specification - Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC v. Silver Spring Networks, Inc.

Addressing claim construction issues, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a jury verdict of infringement, holding that the district court’s “plain and ordinary ...
IPWatchdog

Is ‘Plain and Ordinary Meaning’ a Viable Proposed Claim Construction After the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Eon?

In last year’s decision in Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC v. Silver Spring Network, Inc. 815 F.3d 1314, 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2016), the Federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s jury instruction that the ...
Law

Patents: When the 'Plain and Ordinary' Meaning Is Neither Plain nor Ordinary

Outside Counsel Patents: When the 'Plain and Ordinary' Meaning Is Neither Plain nor Ordinary Matthew Chivvis writes that the Federal Circuit's decisions provide conflicting guidance on the duty to ...
American Enterprise Institute

Using Large Language Models to Understand Ordinary Meanings in Legal Texts: Some Early Judicial and Scholarly Experiments

At least one of those “human judges” is already experimenting with AI tools to help determine the meaning of words and phrases in legal texts. In May 2024, Judge Kevin Newsom of the US Court of ...