{"id":5818,"date":"2013-02-21T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2013-02-23T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T22:42:52","slug":"vitiating-the-doctrine-of-claim-vitiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Vitiating the Doctrine of Claim Vitiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do a fair amount of opinion work as part of my law practice; so, I’m always interested in cases where the doctrine of claim vitiation is a topic during oral argument. The doctrine of claim vitiation has yielded some interesting comments from the bench in past cases. \u00a0See these posts for past comments by Chief Judge Rader. [Link<\/a>], [Link<\/a>], and \u00a0[Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Judge Moore had some frank words about the doctrine of claim vitiation during the oral argument of Source Vagabond Systems Ltd. v. Hydrapak, Inc.<\/span>, 2012-1408 (Fed. Cir. 2013)(Rule 36 Judgment): \u00a0[Listen<\/a>] and [Listen<\/a>]. \u00a0In the second sound bite, she notes that she would be happy to “scratch it out of existence.”<\/p>\n

You can listen to the entire oral argument from Source Vagabond<\/span> here: [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Personally, I find the doctrine of claim vitiation to be a useful tool when there clearly \u00a0is no equivalent. \u00a0However, I understand the court’s frustration with how to apply the doctrine.<\/p>\n

Here is one more post on the related issue of the specific exclusion principle: [Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Two recently decided Federal Circuit cases that deal with claim vitiation are:<\/p>\n

Deere and Co. v. Bush Hog, LLC et al.<\/span>, \u00a0__ F.3d __ , Nos. 2011-1629, -1630, -1631 (Fed. Cir. 2012)(Chief Judge Rader writing for the court) [Link<\/a>]; and<\/p>\n

Brilliant Instruments, Inc. v. Guidetech, LLC<\/span>, __ F.3d __, No. 2012-1013 (Fed. Cir. 2013)(Judge Moore writing for the court; Judge Dyk in dissent) [Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do a fair amount of opinion work as part of my law practice; so, I’m always interested in cases where the doctrine of claim vitiation is a topic during oral argument. The doctrine of claim vitiation has yielded some interesting comments from the bench in past cases. \u00a0See these posts for past comments by […]<\/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\/5818"}],"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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}