Ultimatepointer, L.L.C. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., No. 15-1297 (Fed. Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseltimatePointer’s patent, entitled “Easily Deployable Interactive Direct-Pointing System and Presentation Control System and Calibration Method Therefor,” describes a handheld pointing device that can be used to control the cursor on a projected computer screen, thereby improving a presenter’s ability to control the cursor while making a presentation to an audience. The district court entered summary judgment that Nintendo did not infringe five claims of the patent and that four claims were invalid as indefinite. The Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of noninfringement, stating that the lower court did not err in construing the term “handheld device.” The court reversed the determination of indefiniteness; the claims do not recite functionality divorced from the cited structure and do not reflect an attempt to claim both an apparatus and a method, but instead claim an apparatus with particular capabilities.
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