Williamson v. Citrix 792 F.3d 1339 (Fec. Cir. June 16, 2015) In 1952, Congress invalidated an earlier Supreme Court ruling and provided patentees with the right to claim an invention using functional language–so long as such patentees clearly signaled their intent to do so by use of the claim expression “means for,” in conjunction with [..]

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The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the following three patent lawsuits this term: Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee; Halo Electronics Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.; and Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer, Inc. Cuozzo v. Lee addresses two issues: Whether it is proper for the PTAB in an IPR proceeding to construe claims according to [..]

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