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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-1058 Hospira, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company Federal Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) claim-drafting claim-narrowing doctrine-of-equivalents literal-infringement patent-claim-interpretation patent-claims patent-prosecution-estoppel patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-scope prior-art-rejection tangential-relation tangential-relation-exception Whether a patentee may recapture subject matter via the doctrine of equivalents under the 'tangential relation' exception
18-590 Cave Consulting Group, LLC v. OptumInsight, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response Waived claim-language claim-scope judicial-construction lexicography-disavowal patent-claim-construction patent-scope patent-specification patent-validity public-notice specification specification-interpretation written-description May a court construe a patent claim in a way that contradicts its plain and ordinary meaning by relying on statements in the specification that do not…