The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, recently held that certain method claims in a patent owned by Akamai Technologies were infringed by Akamai’s...more
For the past ten years, there has been a strong presumption against interpreting a functional claim element lacking the word “means” as a means-plus-function claim element under § 112(f) (previously § 112 ¶ 6). One could...more