The specifications provided examples of such devices and other descriptions of their structure, which confirmed that the claims were not merely directed to “nonce words” defined solely by ...

Examples of applicable flow diagrams include ... of an algorithm and avoid negation of a claim construed as using nonce words in means plus function language. – Further embodiments, variations ...

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You’d rather own a wug than a slithy tove—trust us. All this to say that the finer criteria for nonce words are debatable, and you could probably make an argument against the nonce-ness of any ...