Legal Opinion
Netword, LLC v. Centraal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 14, 2001No. 99-1257PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by PAULINE NEWMAN, C.J., Dissenting opinion filed by CLEVENGER, C. J.
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Netword, LLC, appeals the summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, ruling that claim 1 of Netword’s United States Patent No. 5,764,906 (the '906 patent) is not infringed by Centraal Corporation’s RealNames system, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents.1 We affirm the judgment of non-infringement.
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CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
An infringement analysis entails two steps. In the first step the court “construes” the…
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