In re Christmann’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 596 · 1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2008
2 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 Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co · Leggett v. Avery · Underwood v. Gerber · American Road Machine Co. v. Pennock & Sharp Co. · Palmer Pneumatic Tire Co. v. Lozier
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would shock one’s sense of justice if an inventor could receive a patent upon a composition of matter, setting out at length in the specification the useful purposes of such composition, manufacture and sell it to the public, and then prevent the public from making any beneficial use of such product by securing patents upon each of the uses to which it may be adapted. In the case at bar, appellant received a patent upon his composition of matter because he had invented something new and useful. He could not have received such a patent unless he had disclosed its utility. Such disclosure of usefulness did not constitute separate inventions, but an essential part of a single invention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The claims in the instant case are not directed to any particular use although ... appellants rely in part upon the new use to justify their contention for allowance of the new claims. Unquestionably, under the stated circumstances the allowance of the appellants’ claims would be an extension of the appellants’ monopoly not warranted by law. If they were to obtain a patent including the instant claims, they would presumptively be given a monopoly for seventeen years on the exclusive use of the compound for any purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]uch disclosure of usefulness did not constitute separate inventions, but an essential part of a single invention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.