The whole field is about being absolutely precise with language, in writing and reading. It’s tough to do in English, the language just wasn’t built for it. So

The whole field is about being absolutely precise with language, in writing and reading. It’s tough to do in English, the language just wasn’t built for it. So patent practitioners have sort of developed a way of being precise with a malleable langauage. Much of the really odd stuff can be understood through that lens. Note, that precise doesn’t mean “clear” or “easy to understand,” something may be precisely broad in just the way intended, while being precisely clear and narrow in other ways. That’s another inpedence mismatch between normal humans and patent people.