{"id":5272,"date":"2012-07-08T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2012-07-08T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:21:15","slug":"oral-argument-of-the-month-timebase-v-thomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Oral Argument of the Month: Timebase v. Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The case of Timebase v. Thomson<\/span>, App. No. 2012-1082 (Fed. Cir. June 8, 2012) was recently decided by the Federal Circuit via a Rule 36 affirmance. \u00a0The oral argument highlighted a couple of interesting issues. \u00a0First, how should the word “each” be construed. \u00a0Second, does a construction of the word “displaying” that requires the displaying to be performed by\u00a0a\u00a0consumer’s computer\u00a0raise divided infringement issues when an on-line publisher is the party\u00a0being sued for infringement. \u00a0You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Claim 1 of the ‘592 patent at issue reads:<\/p>\n

1. A computer-implemented system for publishing an electronic publication using text-based data, comprising:<\/span> <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>a plurality of predefined portions of text-based data with each predefined portion being stored;<\/span> <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>at least one predefined portion being modified and stored;<\/span> <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>a plurality of linking means of a markup language, each predefined portion of said text-based data and said at least one modified predefined portion of text-based data being encoded with at least one linking means; and<\/span> <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>a plurality of attributes, each attribute being a point on an axis of a multidimensional space for organising said plurality of predefined portions and said at least one modified predefined portion of said text-based data.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Claim 1 of the 7293228 patent at issue reads:<\/p>\n

1. A method for electronically publishing text-based data, the method comprising:<\/p>\n

dividing the text-based data into a plurality of portions of text-based data;<\/p>\n

obtaining an amended portion of text-based data that is amended relative to one of the plurality of portions of text-based data;<\/p>\n

storing each of the plurality of portions of text-based data;<\/p>\n

storing the amended portion of text-based data;<\/p>\n

providing a plurality of attributes, wherein the attributes define a manner in which the plurality of portions of text-based data and the amended portion of text-based data can be organized, displayed and linked in a multidimensional space;<\/p>\n

encoding each of the plurality of portions of text-based data and the amended portion of text-based data with a markup language to include at least one link defined by one of the plurality of attributes;<\/p>\n

allowing a user to search the text-based data using at least one of the plurality of attributes; and<\/p>\n

displaying the text-based data to the user by:<\/p>\n

displaying at least one of the plurality of portions of text-based data or the amended portion of text-based data in response to the search; and<\/p>\n

displaying text, and\/or one or more selectable links representing at least one additional attribute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With respect to the word “each,” Judge Newman remarked on her philosophy of construing claim language: [Listen<\/a>] and [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n

See these earlier posts with respect to the word “each”:\u00a0 [Link<\/a>], [Link<\/a>],\u00a0and [Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case of Timebase v. Thomson, App. No. 2012-1082 (Fed. Cir. June 8, 2012) was recently decided by the Federal Circuit via a Rule 36 affirmance. \u00a0The oral argument highlighted a couple of interesting issues. \u00a0First, how should the word “each” be construed. \u00a0Second, does a construction of the word “displaying” that requires the displaying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272"}],"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=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}