The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the district court’s summary judgement of noninfringement, finding that the lower court had improperly construed the claim term “pull cord.” The district court had erroneously limited the term to a directly pulled cord that lacks a handle. The Federal Circuit determined that these restrictions were unsupported by the intrinsic evidence and directed the district court to apply the correct claim construction in accordance with the Federal Circuit’s guidance and redetermine infringement using the correct claim construction.
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