{"id":2691,"date":"2010-08-04T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2010-08-04T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T22:09:14","slug":"liebel-flarsheim-acknowledged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Liebel-Flarsheim Acknowledged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge Dyk acknowledged\u00a0the role of Liebel Flarsheim v. Medrad<\/span> when construing patent\u00a0claims.\u00a0 Judge Dyk’s dissenting opinion today in Intervet, Inc. v. Merial Ltd.<\/span>, 2009-1568 (Fed. Cir.\u00a0Aug. 4, 2010) stated\u00a0in-part:<\/p>\n

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I write separately primarily to make clear that in construing the claims, we are not deciding that the claims as construed are limited to patentable subject matter. As we noted in Phillips v. AWH Corp.<\/em>, 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc), we do not take validity into account in construing claims, unless \u201cthe court concludes, after applying all the available tools of claim construction, that the claim is still ambiguous.\u201d Id. <\/em>at 1327 (quoting Liebel-Flarsheim Co. v. Medrad, Inc.<\/em>, 358 F.3d 898, 911 (Fed. Cir. 2004) (quotation marks omitted)). That is not the case here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The majority opinion responded to this part of Judge Dyk’s dissent\u00a0with a footnote:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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4 <\/span>We do not address the issues of validity and non-patentable subject matter discussed by the dissent <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>because these issues were not addressed by the district court or raised on appeal.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It would seem that Judge Dyk was taking the opportunity to\u00a0reassure the patent bar that Liebel-Flarsheim<\/span> is to be followed despite the recent failure to\u00a0adhere to\u00a0it in\u00a0 Becton Dickinson and Co. v. Tyco Healthcare Group, LP<\/span>, 2009-1053 (July 29, 2010).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You can read the court’s opinion here: [Read<\/a>].<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judge Dyk acknowledged\u00a0the role of Liebel Flarsheim v. Medrad when construing patent\u00a0claims.\u00a0 Judge Dyk’s dissenting opinion today in Intervet, Inc. v. Merial Ltd., 2009-1568 (Fed. Cir.\u00a0Aug. 4, 2010) stated\u00a0in-part: I write separately primarily to make clear that in construing the claims, we are not deciding that the claims as construed are limited to patentable subject […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}