Patent Claim Construction and Markman Hearings

As one judge stated, “To decide what the claims mean is nearly always to decide the case.” Patent Claim Construction and Markman Hearings provides in-depth guidance to this important area of patent practice, walking the reader through the entire process of preparing for, conducting, and appealing a Markman hearing.  In addition, the book includes a comprehensive chapter on the local court claim construction rules of the various district courts that have adopted them.

Patent Claim Construction and Markman Hearings helps readers understand:

• How courts decide “what a person of ordinary skill in the field of the patent invention would understand the language of the claim to mean”
• The impact of prior constructions on a new hearing
• How to decide what claims or claim elements should be construed by the court
• What constitutes intrinsic and extrinsic evidence in interpreting the claim
• At what point in the overall patent proceeding a construction hearing should be held
• What are the rules that will be used when a contested construction is an issue in an appeal to the Federal Circuit