Case 1:04-cv—O1278-KAJ Document 305 Filed O4/13/2006 Page 1 of 2
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
CRYOVAC INC., )
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Plaintiff/Counter—Defendant, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 04-1278-KAJ
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PECHINEY PLASTIC PACKAGING, )
INC., )
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Defendant/Counter—P|aintiff. )
ORDER
For the reasons set forth in the Opinion issued today, it is hereby ORDERED that
the following disputed claim terms of U.S. Patent No. 4,755,419 (issued July 5, 1988)
are construed as follows:
Claim Term The C0urt’s Construction
"oriented" The court construes "oriented" to mean,
with reference to a polymeric material,
"heated and stretched to realign the
molecular configuration, this stretching
accomplished by a racking or blown
bubble process."
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"arranged symmetrlcaIly" The court construes "arranged
symmetrically" to mean "putting the
layers in a desired symmetrical order
when the film is viewed in cross-section,
so that the layers are inthe same order
on each side of the core of the film, for
example c/cl/b/a/b/dlc. This claim phrase
limits only the arrangement of the layers,
and does not require precise identity in
the thickness of the layers or the
amounts of recited components or
additives that may be included in the
layers."
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