Erbium or Thulium lasers used with a fiber with a low enough hydroxyl ion concentration to transmit laser energy in the 1.4-2.2 micrometer wavelength range through an optical fiber to a surgical site, while “preventing the laser energy ... from being highly absorbed in the fiber material.” '780 Patent, col. 6:5-7. The specification goes on to provide an example of the kind of fiber covered: A fiber which is suitable for use with the illustrative embodiment is a fused-silica fiber part no. 822W manufactured by the Spectran Corporation located in Sturbridge, Mass. '780 Patent, col. 6:7-10. Cardiogenesis responds that plaintiffs construction fails to meet the requirements of § 112, ¶ 6 because the specification does not disclose the process for making “specially pu 1366 (Fed.Cir.2003) (<HOLDING>); S3 Inc. v. NVIDIA Corp., 259 F.3d 1364,
holding that a patent confers upon the patentee an exclusive property in the patented invention which cannot be appropriated or used by the government itself without just compensation holding that generically defining the structure as core logic without explaining its circuitry or how it is modified did not render the claim indefinite because the patented invention could function with any core logic holding that a claim was not indefinite for using the term selector because it was a standard component and its structure was well known in the art holding that use of term black box did not render the claim indefinite because that term was known in the field to represent video standard detector circuitry holding claim indefinite as the specification did not disclose sufficient structure where disclosure stated one of ordinary skill in the art could program a computer with appropriate programming to perform a control means function