K-fee System GmbH v. Nespresso USA, Inc., No. 22-2042 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 26, 2023)

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K-fee System GmbH owns U.S. Patent Nos. 10,858,176, 10,858,177, and 10,870,531, which all de- scend, via division and continuation, from a single applica- tion and share a specification . K- fee filed suit against Nespresso USA in the Central Dis trict of California alleg- ing infringement of the three patents . The district court issued a claim -construction order in which it construed, among other terms, “ barcode,” a term present in every claim of the asserted patents. K-fee Systems GmbH v. Nes- presso USA, Inc., No.