Case: Patents/Claim Construction (C.D. Cal.)

A federal district court in California construed disputed claim terms in SHO Products LLC’s action against Puff Corp. for infringement of a patent for a removable cup atomizer. The court construed “where the removable cup is one piece” as having its plain and ordinary meaning with the clarification that “one piece” may include sub-components but only if the sub-components are securely assembled into a single piece before final atomizer assembly such that the cup cannot be easily disassembled into discrete sub-components, and “a connection means connected to a bottom portion of the cylindrical body, wherein the connection means is configured ...