Courtesy Products, L.L.C. v. Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., C.A. No. 13-2012 – SLR, November 18, 2015.
Robinson, J. Claim construction opinion regarding fifteen terms from three patents.
The following terms were considered:
- “Brewing reservoir”
- “Bottom”
- “Providing a plurality of disposable filter packs/Providing a plurality of single-serving disposable brew baskets”
- “Disposable”
- “Size dimensioned appropriate to make approximately only a single serving of beverage during a single brewing operation”
- “Sufficiently large to hold one of the filter packs and the heated water while brewing without a level of the heated water rising above and overflowing the open top/sufficiently large to hold at least one of the filter packs and the heated water while brewing without a level of the heated water rising above and overflowing the open top”
- “Brewing area”
- “Sufficient to brew approximately only a single serving of brewed beverage/ sufficient to brew approximately only a single serving of beverage”
- “The packaging limitations”
- “The brew baskets being inserted into the location in the beverage brewing machine/the brew baskets being individually inserted into the location during an associated brewing operating/the brewing machine heating water from the water reservoir”
- “The filter pack being placed in the brewing reservoir through the open top”
- “Wherein a first brew basket of the plurality of disposable brew baskets is utilized in the beverage brewing machine during a first brewing operation and a second brew basket of the plurality of disposable brew baskets is utilized in the beverage brewing machine during a second brewing operation”
- “Wherein each of the plurality of disposable brew baskets is utilized in the same beverage brewing machine during a corresponding plurality of single brewing operations”
- “Wherein the plurality of disposable brew baskets are packaged before use”
- “The lid being lifted open to permit water to be freely poured into the water reservoir”
