![]() § 112, second paragraph because the term was “purely subjective” and because the claim language provides no guidance on its meaning. Particularly, the district court found the term “visually negligible” in the claim as indefinite under 35. The district court granted summary judgment against Sonix finding the patent invalid as being indefinite. barcode on a book cover), but the invention is an improvement over conventional methods because it renders the graphical indicators “visually negligible.” The patent admits that encoding graphical indicators is not new (e.g. a horse) with the optical device, the book will output a sound (e.g. An example application is a children’s book with icons, where if one scans an icon (e.g. a matrix of small dots) to encode information on the surface of an object, and an optical device that can read the graphical indicator and output additional information. The ‘845 patent of Sonix is directed to using a graphical indicator (e.g. The decision provides insight into how terms of degree in claims are treated and how the specification can be useful in providing an objective baseline in interpreting such terms. “visually negligible,” did not render the asserted claims indefinite under 35. 5, 2017), the Federal Circuit found that the term at issue in U.S. October 30, 2017- In Sonix Technology Co., LTD., v. ![]()
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