Prahl v. Redman’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.2d 1018 · 1941
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999
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.
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Relies on Daley v. Trube
Most-quoted passages
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“During the interlocutory period petitioners [Prahl et al.] moved to take testimony * * * that the specific catalysts given as examples by Redman [appellee] in his application are inoperative in the process covered by the claims then in issue, four of which claims are existing counts 1 to 4. After the interference had been re-formed by adding counts 5 to 8 and petitioners had been placed under the order to show cause they brought a similar motion as to these counts. In both of these motions petitioners admitted that the particular catalysts which they seek to prove inoperative by testimony are `outside the issue of the interference.' 37 "Both the primary examiner and the examiner of interferences have correctly pointed out that testimony on the operativeness of such catalysts would be irrelevant to the right of Redman to make the claims in issue. The refusal by the examiner of interferences to permit petitioners to take testimony was therefore proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Both the primary examiner and the examiner of interferences have correctly pointed out that testimony on the operativeness of such catalysts would be irrelevant to the right of Redman to make the claims in issue. The refusal by the examiner of interferences to permit petitioners to take testimony was therefore proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are convinced, as were the Patent Office tribunals, that appellants were not entitled to take testimony upon the subject of inoperativeness, for the reasons set forth by said tribunals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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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.