Legal Opinion
Chef America, Inc. v. Lamb-Weston, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 20, 2004No. 03-1279PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
The sole issue in this appeal is the meaning of the following language in a patent claim: “heating the resulting batter-coated dough to a temperature in the range of about 400° F. to 850° F.” The question is whether the dough itself is to be heated to that temperature (as the district court held), or whether the claim only specifies the temperature at which the dough is to be heated, i.e., the temperature of the oven (as the appellant contends). We agree with the district court that the claim means what it says (the dough is to be heated “to” the designated…
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