District Court, S.D. Indiana January 16, 2001, IP 98-1712-C-Y/G (Jackson v. Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.)

ORDER CONSTRUING CLAIMS OF U.S. PATENT NO. 4,596,900

YOUNG, District Judge.

This is a patent case. Plaintiff Philip S. Jackson (“Jackson”), is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 4,596,900 (“the ’900 patent”). The ’900 patent discloses and claims a set of electronic circuits for remotely controlling appliances or devices through the use of tones produced by touch-tone telephones.