Legal Opinion
Thorner v. Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 1, 2012No. 2011-1114PublishedCited by 559 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Craig Thorner and Virtual Reality Feedback Corporation (Appellants, collectively) accused Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC and a number of other Sony entities (Sony, collectively) of infringing claims of U.S. patent no. 6,422,941 ('941 patent) relating to a tactile feedback system for computer video games. The district court construed disputed claim terms and the parties stipulated to a judgment of noninfringement. Because the district court improperly limited the term “attached to said pad” to mean attachment only to an external surface and erred in its…
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