The legal principles that underlie the construction of patent claims are fundamental to patent law. The breadth of a claim impacts on all of the major legal concepts relevant to a patentee's degree of ...

A recent decision by an appeal court to reconsider principal claim construction issues could lead to the biggest changes in US patent litigation in the last decade. Steven Rizzi of Weil Gotshal & ...

Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s effectively reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back ...