Legal Opinion
Ccs Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corporation and Its Division Life Fitness
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 30, 2002No. 01-1139PublishedCited by 471 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-Appellant CCS Fitness, Inc. appeals from a decision by the United States District Court for the District of Colorado holding that the claim limitation “reciprocating member” as used in the asserted patents does not cover anything more than the single-component straight bar depicted in the patents’ drawings. As a result, the district court concluded, the accused infringer Life Fitness warranted summary judgment of non-infringement, since its accused exercise machines’ “pedal lever” uses a multi-component, curved bar.
Because the claim term “member” has an…
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