Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee
United States Supreme Court
136 S. Ct. 2131 (2016)
Relevant factsFree
After the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated Cuozzo's (plaintiff's) speedometer patent as obvious during inter partes review requested by Garmin, applying the Patent Office's broadest-reasonable-construction claim standard rather than the ordinary-meaning standard courts apply in patent-validity litigation, Cuozzo argued the board used the wrong standard; the Federal Circuit rejected that argument and upheld the Patent Office's regulation as a valid exercise of its rulemaking authority.
IssueFree
Whether the Patent Office has the authority to issue a regulation stating that the agency shall construe a patent claim according to its broadest reasonable construction.
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