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Patents Explained: Claims

At last, the claims!  The heart of the patent! Appropriately bringing this series of explanatory posts to an end, the claims conclude a patent.  A patent can have one claim or many; generally, though, they’ve got 20 or less because … Continue reading

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2009-1001 Gemtron Corp. v. Saint-Gobain Corp.

Decided: July 20, 2009 Plaintiff Gemtron sued Saint-Gobain for infringement of its patent on a refrigerator shelf. Gemtron’s claim 23 detailed a one-piece plastic shelf frame that accepted a glass shelf with a “snap-secure” mechanism that locked the glass into … Continue reading

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