DSS Technology Management Inc. v. Taiwan Semiconductor, No. 15-1684 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 22, 2016)

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DSS Technology Management , Inc. owns U.S. Patent No. 5,652,084, which describes and claims methods of making patterns in semiconductor wafers. DSS sued a number of companies , alleging that they manufacture products by using processes covered by claims 1 –7 and 10 the ’084 patent or sell products made by such processes . After the district court construed the claim s, the parties stipulated to a judgment of noninfringement. DSS a p- peals the district court’s construction of the term “pa t- terned layer .” DSS Tech. Mgmt., Inc. v.