In re Watter’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.2d 685 · 1945
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
June 1951
most recently cited
Most-quoted passages
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“It is usually the application of old principles to new methods or articles of manufacture that involves patentable subject matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of Franz
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