United States Federal Circuit

The written description of a claim must explicitly limit the subject matter of the patent because drawings will only depict the preferred embodiment rather than the only embodiment of the invention.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2001
• Published 06/26/2001

Judges

• LINN, Circuit Judge., Before LOURIE, RADER, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph R. Re,Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, of Newport Beach, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was William R. Zimmerman.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Anthony, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, of Menlo Park, CA, argued for defendant-appellee.   With him on the brief was Terrence P. McMahon, Eric L. Wesenberg, and Rowena Y. Young.