United States Federal Circuit

In claims from patents relating to rods for internal combustion engines, 1) the court erred in requiring that intrinsic evidence of the specification and prosecution history is the sole source of meaning of words that are used in a technologic context, and 2) summary judgment of invalidity on the ground of anticipation is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/19/2002
• Published 11/19/2002

Judges

• PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and CLEVENGER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. Artz,Artz & Artz, P.C., of Southfield, MI, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was John S. Artz, and Robert P. Renke.


• For Appellees:
  
• Geoffrey R. Myers, Hall, Priddy, Myers & Vande Sande, of Potomac, MD, argued for defendants-appellees.   Of counsel on the brief was James E. Wynne, Butzel Long, of Detroit, Michigan.