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Arista Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

10087342 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 19, 2015)
Arista Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

16 Cited authorities

  1. B. Braun Medical v. Abbott Laboratories

    124 F.3d 1419 (Fed. Cir. 1997)   Cited 510 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court's pre- Markman failure to instruct the jury on the construction of a means-plus-function limitation was harmless because the jury adopted the correct construction

  2. Atmel Corp. v. Info. Storage Devices, Inc.

    198 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 1999)   Cited 297 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the determination of whether sufficient structure is disclosed in the specification to support a means-plus-function limitation is based on the understanding of one skilled in the art

  3. Budde v. Harley-Davidson, Inc.

    250 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2001)   Cited 237 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the specification's reference to "commercially available vacuum sensors" constituted sufficient structure, as one skilled in the art would have understood the reference

  4. Blackboard v. DESIRE2LEARN

    368 F. App'x 111 (Fed. Cir. 2009)   Cited 162 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that even "a cursory motion suffices to preserve an issue on JMOL so long as it 'serves the purposes of Rule 50, i.e., to alert the court to the party's legal position and to put the opposing party on notice of the moving party's position as to the insufficiency of the evidence.'"

  5. Cardiac Pacemakers v. St. Jude Medical

    296 F.3d 1106 (Fed. Cir. 2002)   Cited 187 times
    Holding that it is improper to limit a function beyond what is stated in the claim

  6. In re Paulsen

    30 F.3d 1475 (Fed. Cir. 1994)   Cited 230 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding an inventor may define specific terms used to describe invention, but must do so "with reasonable clarity, deliberateness, and precision" and, if done, must "'set out his uncommon definition in some manner within the patent disclosure' so as to give one of ordinary skill in the art notice of the change" in meaning

  7. O.I. Corp. v. Tekmar Co. Inc.

    115 F.3d 1576 (Fed. Cir. 1997)   Cited 203 times
    Holding that the step of "passing the analyte slug through a passage" was not subject to section 112, ¶ 6 because the term "passage" referred to the place where the recited function occurs rather than the structure that accomplishes the function

  8. In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC

    793 F.3d 1268 (Fed. Cir. 2015)   Cited 120 times   26 Legal Analyses
    Determining that, under the "broadest reasonable interpretation standard," the construction of the term "integrally attached" as "discrete parts physically joined together as a unit without each part losing its own separate identity" was reasonable

  9. In re Donaldson Co., Inc.

    16 F.3d 1189 (Fed. Cir. 1994)   Cited 206 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 6, which limits means-plus-function claims to the structures described in the specification and their equivalents, "applies regardless of the context in which the interpretation of means-plus-function language arises, i.e., whether as part of a patentability determination in the PTO or as part of a validity or infringement determination in a court"

  10. In re Translogic Technology

    504 F.3d 1249 (Fed. Cir. 2007)   Cited 44 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing that the Supreme Court set aside the rigid application of the TSM Test and ensured use of customary knowledge as an ingredient in that equation.

  11. Section 112 - Specification

    35 U.S.C. § 112   Cited 7,283 times   1028 Legal Analyses
    Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it

  12. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,061 times   453 Legal Analyses
    Holding the party seeking invalidity must prove "the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains."

  13. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 5,941 times   957 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  14. Section 314 - Institution of inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 314   Cited 370 times   626 Legal Analyses
    Directing our attention to the Director's decision whether to institute inter partes review "under this chapter" rather than "under this section"

  15. Section 42.100 - Procedure; pendency

    37 C.F.R. § 42.100   Cited 188 times   75 Legal Analyses
    Providing that the PTAB gives " claim . . . its broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in which it appears"

  16. Section 42.108 - Institution of inter partes review

    37 C.F.R. § 42.108   Cited 45 times   69 Legal Analyses
    Permitting partial institution