claims construction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 383 U.S. 39 - United States v. Adams · 1966Most cited · 1,572 citing opinions
claims are to be construed in the light of the specifications and both are to be read with a view to ascertaining the invention
How often courts cite the case defining “claims construction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “claims construction” — 1,557 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.