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Phillips v. AWH Corp.
Phillips (Fed. Cir. 2005, en banc) sets the order of sources for claim construction.
Citation: Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc)
Type: Case
Jurisdiction: Federal
Issuing body: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Status: Decided
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Parties: Phillips v. AWH Corp.
Proceeding: court decision
Terms are read as a person of ordinary skill would understand them, in the context of the entire patent. The claims themselves come first, followed by the specification, prosecution history, and extrinsic evidence, in that order of weight.
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