S3 Incorporated, (Now Known as Sonicblue, Inc.) v. Nvidia Corporation

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. It concludes that the district court erroneously held that claims 1-4 and 9-11 of the '279 patent are indefinite. Contrary to the majority, I would affirm the district court’s determination.

The majority finds that the claims are definite. However, an astute reading of the claims clearly establishes that the term “video information data stream” renders their scope and meaning ambiguous. Reference to the intrinsic evidence fails to rectify this ambiguity, and the majority’s speculative and illusive analysis of the written description to the…