In Hill-Rom Services, Inc. v. Stryker Corp., No.
13-1450 (Fed. Cir. June 27, 2014), the Federal Circuit reversed the
district court's SJ of noninfringement, finding that it was
based on several erroneous claim constructions.
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Hill-Rom Company, Inc., and Hill-Rom
Manufacturing, Inc. (collectively "Hill-Rom") own three
patents related to remote hospital bed monitoring—U.S. Patent
Nos. 5,699,038 ("the '038 patent"); 6,147,592; and
7,538,659 (collectively "the patents-in-suit"). All
three patents-in-suit share a common specification, which discloses
hospital beds equipped with sensors that monitor parameters such as
the patient's presence and the height of the bed. In the
patented system, an interface board processes the monitored signals
to create bed condition messages, and sends the bed condition
messages over a datalink to a remote location. In some cases,
the messages may also include message validation informa
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