Method to Locate a Shelf and Slot with Ordered Items Decision of the Supreme People’s Court of China 8 April 2021 – Case No. (2020) Zui Gao Fa Zhi Min Zhong No. 1469

• Published in: IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 774 - 783
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2024
• Subjects: Decision • Patent Law; Intellectual Property; IT Law; Law; Law and Criminolgy; Media Law; Patent claim; Prior art; Limiting effect; Doctrine of Equivalents; Subject-matter of a claim; Preamble and technical features section of a claim; Scope of protection

The title as an integral part of a preamble has a limiting effect on the scope of protection of an independent claim. Under normal circumstances, when determining the scope of protection of a claim, all technical features pertaining to a claim must be considered, and the exact limiting effect of eac...