Appeal No. 96-2597
Application No. 08/187,529
a means-plus-function recitation, it being presumed from the
absence of the term "means" that the sixth paragraph of § 112
does not apply, and appellant not having presented any basis
for overcoming that presumption. See Personalized Media
Communications, LLC v. ITC, 161 F.3d 696, 703, 48 USPQ2d 1880,
1887 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
It is fundamental that, during prosecution before the
Patent and Trademark Office, a term in a claim is to be given
its broadest reasonable interpretation, In re Morris, 127 F.3d
1048, 1054, 44 USPQ2d 1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997), unless
appellant has clearly given it a special meaning in the
specification.
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