Wu v. Wang’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 1237 · 1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2010
8 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Smith · Conservolite, Inc. v. Widmayer · Perkins v. Kwon · Rowe v. Dror
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny party to an interference dissatisfied with the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences on the interference, may have remedy by civil action . . . unless he has appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Despite having lost the right to his patent as a result of an adverse decision on patentability, Wang still had an interest in seeing that Wu was likewise not entitled to the subject matter of the interference, albeit on patentability, not priority, grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schulze v. Green“The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences shall determine questions of priority of the inventions and may determine questions of patentability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schulze v. Green
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.