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Article: Claim Construction Is A Product, Not A Process.(federal circuit courts)(Case overview)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
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- July 8, 2008
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In a recent decision construing claims to virtual memory space networking systems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a pre-Phillips district court claim construction, reminding us that construing patent claims is not about the process, but about the result. Mangosoft, Inc. v. Oracle Corp. , Case No. 07-1250 (Fed. Cir., May 14, 2008) (Linn, C. J.).
Mangosoft is the owner of a patent covering computer networking systems that, in contrast to traditional networks with central data repositories, decentralize memory by storing data in a network of individual computers (or nodes) to form a "virtual memory space." Mangosoft sued Oracle, ...