In Re Ben Huang’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably AstraZeneca AB v. Mylan Laboratories Inc. (2007), 364 F. Supp. 2d 820 - Eli Lilly & Co. v. Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2005)
19 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Cable Electric Products, Inc. v. Genmark, Inc. · Miles Laboratories, Inc. v. Shandon Inc. · Pro-Mold and Tool Company, Inc. v. Great Lakes Plastics, Inc., Defendant/cross-Appellant · Kansas Jack, Inc. v. Kuhn
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“new and unexpected result which is different in kind and not merely in degree from the results of the prior art”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“great improvement and utility over the prior art, [but] it may still not be patentable if the modification was within the capabilities of one skilled in the art,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.