Claim Construction: Sweeping Reasonableness Under the Rug
Patent – Patently-O 2017-07-06
Summary:
by Dennis Crouch Hitachi Metals v. Alliance of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Industry (Fed. Cir. 2017) (nonprecedential decision) Rare-earth magnets are the strongest commercially available permanent magnets. Hitachi’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,491,765 and 6,537,385 are directed to important commercial methods of pulverizing an alloy in order to prepare a powder then used to make the magnets. Hitachi had previously […]