{"id":869,"date":"2009-10-18T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-10-18T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:30:45","slug":"the-meaning-of-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of “each” …."},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a few weeks ago about the case In re Skvorecz<\/span> in which there was a discussion about the meaning of “each” when used to refer back to a plurality of items.\u00a0 [LINK<\/a>]\u00a0 I stumbled across an oral argument from 2006 where the panel again was trying to understand what “each” meant in this context.<\/p>\n

The claim at issue read:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Claim<\/a><\/p>\n

The relevant language was “a plurality of separate patient treatment stations each having a patient support for orienting a patient in a fixed position” and “a gantry at each treatment station.”<\/p>\n

The defendant’s attorney\u00a0argued that “each” meant “every.”\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Linn questioned whether, in a situation where there were three\u00a0patient treatment stations,\u00a0“a gantry at each treatment station”\u00a0could mean that only\u00a0two of the treatment stations need have a gantry while the third need not necessarily have a gantry.\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Bryson also\u00a0suggested that perhaps there was some ambiguity as to the meaning of “each.”<\/p>\n

Here is what defendant’s\u00a0counsel argued: [Listen<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Here is what plaintiff’s\u00a0counsel argued: [Listen<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the court did not address the meaning of “each”\u00a0in its opinion since the patent was found invalid.\u00a0 But, if one has to argue about the meaning of “each” for six minutes of an oral argument, I would question whether\u00a0“each” indeed\u00a0has a common and ordinary meaning.<\/p>\n

You can read the court’s opinion here: [Read<\/a>]<\/p>\n

You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [Listen<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted a few weeks ago about the case In re Skvorecz in which there was a discussion about the meaning of “each” when used to refer back to a plurality of items.\u00a0 [LINK]\u00a0 I stumbled across an oral argument from 2006 where the panel again was trying to understand what “each” meant in this […]<\/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\/869"}],"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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}