X2Y Attenuators, LLC v. International Trade
Commission
Addressing the impact of an alleged disclaimer made in a patent
on which asserted patents relied for priority, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a final determination of
the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC, the Commission) that
respondent and intervenors did not violate 19 U.S.C. § 1337,
finding that the ITC's decision to limit the scope of the claim
language based on disavowal in the specification of the patent was
proper. X2Y Attenuators, LLC v. International Trade
Commission, Case No. 13-1340 (Fed. Cir., July 7, 2014) (Moore,
J.) (Reyna, J., concurring).
X2Y Attenuators filed a complaint in the ITC accusing Intel of
unlawful importation of products that infringed X2Y's
patents. The patents related to structures for reducing
electromagnetic interference in electrical circuits. The
patented inventions disclose shielding electrodes to reduce the
undesirable buildup of
