Appeal No. 95-1360 Application No. 08/134,002 550, makes a distinction between these two concepts: “[R]eading a claim in the light of the specification,” to thereby interpret limitations explicitly recited in the claim, is a quite different thing from “reading limitations of the specification into a claim,” to thereby narrow the scope of the claim by implicitly adding disclosed limitations which have no express basis in the claim. This distinction is difficult to draw . . . . 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007