In re Von Bramer’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 149 · 1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Pfizer, Inc. v. International Rectifier Corp. (1976), In re LeGrice (1962)
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Cohn v. United States Corset Co. · In re Marden · In re Wietzel · In re Fink · In re Decker
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applicants’ argument that a name without further description given to a substance fails to identify or classify it and therefore fails to add to the prior knowledge in any way, is often true. In the present instance a chemical compound is named by the Clifford patent, butyl amino phenol, which, while proposed to be used as a gasoline stabilizer as applicants would use it, is, according to applicants, merely a name and not a real anticipation of the very stabilizer substance applicants would use notwithstanding applicants name their stabilizer substance with the same words. This contention is predicated in the failure of applicants to prepare this N-butyl [N-butyl] amino phenol by a process described by the patentee. “The fallacy in applicants’ argument lies in the fact that the N-butyl amino phenol mentioned by the patentee is more than a mere name of an individual substance, otherwise unrecognized. This is a name according to a standard system of chemical nomenclature (Geneva system) whereby a chemically individual substance of definite chemical molecular structure is defined having generally predictable properties such as found for any similar N-alkyl amino phenol, and generally capable of synthesis by the recognized classical organic reactions. The use of a name falling within the standard chemical system by the patentee is no accident because all of the many compounds named in Clifford’s disclosure are deliberately named from this standard chemical system. “Thus it is ap”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is not necessary that a reference patent for a device or chemical compound disclose an operative process for producing the article or product.” ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“gasoline stabilized against deterioration by the addition of an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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