In Re Reid Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2020
3 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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Litton Systems, Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp. · Petersen Manufacturing Co. v. Central Purchasing, Inc. · Gardner v. TEC Systems, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike an invention in a utility patent, a patented ornamental design has no use other than its visual appearance, and its scope is limited to what is shown in the application drawings. Therefore, in considering prior art references for purposes of determining patentability or ornamental designs, the focus must be on appearances and not uses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be compared with something in existence, not with something that might be brought into existence by selecting individual features from prior art and combining them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Joseph Borden“so related that the appearance of certain ornamental features in one would suggest the application of those features to the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Joseph Borden
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.