Noonan -- In the non-precedential General Atomics case decided earlier this month, the Federal Circuit applied its Markman claim construction practice to a Jepson claim, a venerable claim format seen more frequently in the mechanical and electrical arts than in the chemical or biotechnology arts (1). [read post]

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