Jenner v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That the number of persons who had an opportunity to see the machine in operation was limited, and included some who, by reason of youth and in experience, were not likely to understand or be able to describe the mechanism, is of no great importance, in view of the fact that the inventor made and set up this machine for Bowen for the purpose of being commercially operated. Bowen understood its mechanism and its method of use, and was under no restriction as to the place or manner of its operation, and under no obligation of secrecy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doulett v. Muther

2. “"If an inventor, having made his device, gives or sells it to another, to be used by the donee or vendee, without limitation or restriction, or injunction of secrecy, and it is so used, sucli use is public, even though the use and knowledge of the use may be confined to one person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Macbeth Evans Glass Co. v. General Electric Co.

3. ““We have examined the evidence upon this subject with a good deal of care, being inclined to save this patent, if it could be done under the law, but only to find that neither the inventor nor Bowen used any of the precautions usual when it is desired to beep an invention secret.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Macbeth Evans Glass Co. v. General Electric Co.