open ended claim

A patent claim that contains a nonexclusive list of elements, typically introduced by the phrase “consisting of.”

• A later patent applicant cannot avoid infringement by merely adding an analogue to the list. Cf. closed-ended claim; nearly closed-ended claim.

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