Court rejected defendants' assertion of indefiniteness of disputed terms in claim construction, where the intrinsic record and prosecution history of the patents-in-suit provided objective boundaries that would inform a person of ordinary skill in the art about the scope of the patent claims, so the court adopted plaintiffs' proposed constructions after defendants declined to offer competing instructions or present any evidence regarding what they believed a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand the disputed terms to me

Appellees were property owners in Louisiana and Texas who alleged that joint ventures entered into by appellant, a conservation and reclamation district within the watershed of the Sabine River, and its Texas counterpart deliberately released water from the Toledo Bend reservoir and flooded their properties, causing property damage.

Court Gives Defendant Final Chance to Comply With Discovery or Risk Significant Sanctions

Plaintiff Establishes That Defendants' Withholding of Requested Documents Is Willful

Patentees created their own definition for the term "about," but defined it in such a way as to make the term indefinite since it effectively created an unbounded value range for the claim.