Law stated as of 17 Feb 2015 • USA (National/Federal)
A discussion of the Retractable Technologies, Inc. (RTI) v. Becton, Dickinson and Co. litigation. The key issue in this case concerns claim construction, specifically, the extent to which a court can use a patent's specification to construe or limit the patent's claims and whether the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should review a district court's claim construction decision de novo.