{"id":12645,"date":"2026-06-27T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12645"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:56:25","slug":"quote-for-the-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12645","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In <em>Spine Solutions, Inc. v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc.,<\/em> we explained that even where a particular structure makes it &#8220;particularly difficult&#8221; to obtain certain benefits of the claimed invention, this does not rise to the level of disavowal of the structure. 620 F.3d 1305, 1315 (Fed.Cir.2010). It is likewise not enough that the only embodiments, or all of the embodiments, contain a particular limitation. We do not read limitations from the specification into claims; we do not redefine words. Only the patentee can do that. To constitute disclaimer, there <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12749337109198734961&amp;q=%22clear+and+unmistakable+disavowal%22&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131#p1367\">1367*1367<\/a> must be a clear and unmistakable disclaimer.<\/p>\n<cite>Thorner v. Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, 669 F. 3d 1362, 1366-67 (Fed. Cir. 2012).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled-1024x769.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled-1024x769.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dis-a-voweled.png 1447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spine Solutions, Inc. v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc., we explained that even where a particular structure makes it &#8220;particularly difficult&#8221; to obtain certain benefits of the claimed invention, this does not rise to the level of disavowal of the structure. 620 F.3d 1305, 1315 (Fed.Cir.2010). It is likewise not enough that the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}