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In the U.S., a patent’s prosecution history matters in the context of claim construction and assessing infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, prosecution history is used as a tool to interpret the claims
Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1646, -1656 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 2, 2021) Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of indefiniteness, and particularly, terms that are construed as being subject to 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 6. Like in other recent cases, the terms at issue were multi-word coined terms used to describe features in computer systems. We recently provided a write-up of a similar case—see our write-up of the Federal Circuit’s February 12, 2021 decision in Synchronoss Techs., Inc. v. Dropbox, Inc.here. As in that case, the claim at issue her...
Samsung wins app store patent appeal 04-03-2021 20-10-2016 Samsung secured a win in the Federal Circuit court of appeals on Tuesday, March 2, which overturned a lower-court ruling that upheld a computer hardware company’s app store patent. Rain Computers sued Samsung last year claiming the Korean tech giant infringed its app store patent (US patent number 9,805,349), which details a method of delivering apps to devices from a web store. The United States District Court of Massachusetts ruled on February 12, 2020, that the Rain Computers patent was not indefinite, but also ruled that Samsung...