The section of a patent that describes the legal scope of the invention. Patent claims are supposed to establish the boundaries of the patentee’s entitlement to exclude. Under peripheral claiming as practiced in the U.S., claims establish the outer bounds of the patentee’s privilege to exclude others. For further reading, see Burk and Lemley, Signposts or Fence Posts.
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