Senkus v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.2d 597 · 1948
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1980
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 Collins v. Olsen · Crane v. Carlson · Patterson v. Clements · Lichtenwalter v. Caron · Israel v. Gresswell
Most-quoted passages
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“The subject issue can be summarized by stating that Murr has never, on this record, pointed to a particular sample of ammonium acetate which he bagged for irradiation, which he gave to Degering and which was directly returned to him after irradiation, and which he analyzed for amino acids. The Thurston, Reed and Searle cases, supra. 6 In particular see Senkus v. Johnston, 166 F.2d 597, 35 CCPA 1008, 611 O.G. 759. There the court said: 33 "Appellant contends here that the board erred in its action `relating to the necessity for visual observation by a corroborating witness of a process conducted by an inventor, holding in effect that such a witness must testify that he observed on a specific date at least one specific experiment from start to finish with each process step conducted in consecutive order and with the ultimate preparation of a white crystalline product.' It is indeed difficult to understand such contention. In order that a corroborating witness be properly equipped to give testimony in a case such as this, he surely must see the operation of the process and have personal knowledge of the product. We can see no error in the holding complained of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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