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§ 112 Indefiniteness for Mixing Claims to Apparatus and Method
Claims in a patent directed to medical diagnostics were indefinite under 35 U.S.C. §112(b) and Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosign Instruments, Inc. (S. Ct. 2014), said a court in granting summary judgment of invalidity. Lecat’s Ventriloscope v. MT Tool and Manufacturing, No. 1-16-cv-05298 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 20, 2018). Claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 7,645,141 seems to recite an apparatus, but note the emphasized language:...