Written by Mark Terry    Today, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed a Patent Examiner’s rejections of a key ARM Ltd. patent application, thereby clearing the way for ARM’s application to issue as a patent. As a Patent Lawyer practicing in Florida, this case was instructive in its illustration of the case law surrounding claim construction. At issue in this case was the construction of the claim term “reallocation.” On the issue of claim construction, the BPAI decision stated: During prosecution, “the PTO gives claims their ‘broadest reasonable interpretation.’” In