CASE HIGHLIGHTS

摘要

"Means for receiving" limitations found in applicant's means-plus-function claims in a patent application for a self-powered switch were adequately supported by the written descriptions found in prior foreign applications for purposes of claiming priority. A person of ordinary skill in the art could understand the bounds of the invention merely by reading the term "receiver," which was present in the foreign applications. See EnOcean GmbH v. Face Intern. Corp., 109 U.S.P.Q.2d 1502, 2014 WL 341040 (Fed. Cir. 2014).